Senior Java Engineer

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Department: R&D

Workplace: remote

Description

Hi, we are Storyteq! 👋🏼  Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates & AI and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster. We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn't. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.

About the job

You will be a part of one of our development teams and work directly with other Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Product Owners to deliver the best platform for our users.  Your role will revolve around all the different elements that will bring our product to new heights. This includes designing and implementing scalable back-end services, mentoring junior engineers and shaping our technical architecture. The team works with strong goals and a good balance of product & engineering roadmap features. That way we make sure we always keep our technology and product on track!

Key responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and maintaining high-quality Java back-end services and APIs as part of one of our Product & Engineering Teams.
• Lead and contribute to code reviews, ensuring high standards of quality and maintainability.
• Take on a mentoring role for more junior members of your team.
• Drive improvements in our engineering processes, tooling, and practices.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Platform Engineers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions.

Key Requirements:

• At least 5+ years of relevant experience working as a Java Engineer.
• Deep expertise in Java (11+) and the Spring Boot framework and highly competent at producing and maintaining clean good quality code.
• Broad knowledge of creational, structural, behavioural and architectural design patterns.
• Strong understanding and experience working with distributed systems and different architectural styles including microservices, monolithic, event driven and serverless.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS.
• Solid knowledge of RESTful API design
• Experienced with cloud native technologies e.g., messaging, container runtimes such as Kubernetes, serverless, cloud storage, caching 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and DevOps practices.
• You're pro-active, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up.
• You're a team player and like to work together to reach our goals.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and able to provide accurate estimations and planning efforts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience with GraphQL or gRPC.
• Experience using products in the Google Cloud ecosystem 
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture patterns.
• Experience with observability tooling (e.g. NewRelic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of security best practices in API development.
• Exposure to front-end technologies (e.g. Vue.js or Angular).

Things we love at Storyteq:

• Be entrepreneurial
• See and seize opportunities
• Take ownership
• Focus on impact
• Be Ambitious

 We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together.

ITG have a number of community groups (ERGs) available to employees which offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other. These include Black ITGers Together, LGBTQ+ Together, Mens Health Together, Muslims Together, Neurodiversity Together, Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together.

What next?
If you found yourself interested in knowing more, drop us your application and someone from our team will be in touch.

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