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Urgent! API Developer Job Opening In iKapa – Now Hiring Zensar Technologies



Job description

Role : API Developer

Location : Cape Town

Duration : 12 Months Renewal

About Zensar Technologies

We are a technology consulting and services company with 11, 800+ associates in 33 global locations.

More than 130 leading enterprises depend on our expertise to be more disruptive, agile, and competitive.

Our success in South Africa for 24 years comes from our people-first focus that emphasizes empowerment from the ground up.

Zensar is recognized as proudly South African in 2022 and are the Top Employer in 2024,2023 and 2022 in South Africa by the Top Employer Institute.

Zensar is a certified B-BBEE Level 2 contributor and partners with MICT, SETA, Education Africa, and Tomorrow Trust.

We strongly believe in the power of communities and leveraging diversity to solve problems together.

Zensar is a place where you are free to express yourself in an environment that values individuality, nurtures development and is mindful of wellbeing.

We put our people and customers at the center of everything that we do.

Our core values include:

  • Putting people first
  • Client-centricity
  • Collaboration

Grow.

Own.

Achieve.

Learn.

with Zensar.

To know more about our Employee Value Proposition

Job Requirement and expertise :

Job Spec Below

  • The Senior API Developer leads the development of high-quality designs and solutions.

    This role requires participation in technical designs and the development and maintenance of software and other digital applications or services.

    The incumbent will be expected to create prototypes, develop user-centred software, and advise on technical specifications.

    This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to
  • Job Description
  • Develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
  • Create and test software prototypes
  • Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
  • Work in a DEVOPS culture
  • Design and implement test strategy and/or test plans.

  • Provide sizing and scoping for development work required
  • Operate as a subject matter expert across program initiatives
  • Responsible for the software development life cycle, taking the lead on software development projects
  • Apply engineering principles for design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software
  • Management of development tasks
  • Facilitate code design and code reviews
  • Ensure that software development tasks are well coordinated
  • Apply knowledge relating to the Architecture of relevant systems
  • Develop and improve the tools to enable software development
  • Balance trade-offs between design and implementation
  • Identify issues that will enhance system quality, development, and standard operating procedures
  • Client engagement to drive new products/ features and to ensure operational excellence
  • Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business analysts
  • Drive technology design and implementation
  • Enable rapid iteration
  • Draft technical specifications
  • Monitor application performance
  • Operational support for product issues raised to the development team
  • Ensure systems are scalable, responsive, robust, and secure

Experience & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

  • Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related
  • 5+ years of experience in API development
  • Knowledge and experience in technologies such as:
  • Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker
  • CI/CD - Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
  • AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as AZURE or Google Cloud Platform
  • Confluence, Jira
  • Microsoft Teams, Slack
  • IaC: Terraform/Cloudformation
  • .Netcore/ Kotlin/Java
  • Performance testing (Locust/Jmeter/Gatling etc.)
  • Contract testing (e.g., Pact, Postman, Neman)
  • Familiarity with Architecture and Design: Microservice, Serverless architectures, Event Driven Architecture / API First / Domain driven design
  • Familiarity with Test-Driven Development Build cloud based functional APIs at an enterprise level
  • Knowledge of coding design patterns


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