Senior Java Rust Developer

We don’t just sling code — we craft clean, smart, scalable systems that make businesses better.

We’re after a Senior Java Rust Developer who dreams in traits, thrives on zero-cost abstractions, and maybe has a pet name for the borrow checker. (No judgment.)

If your idea of fun includes ownership models, and your playlists include Lo-fi beats to refactor to, we might be your people.

What you’ll do:

• Developers need experience and/or a robust understanding of designing, developing and testing distributed, high-volume and highly reliable software.
• Business and Operational awareness, alongside experience with Cloud-based infrastructure is highly desirable
• Delivery: Contribute to the team's technical trajectory, ensuring alignment with major technical decisions and strategic team goals.
• Code excellence: Ensure the delivery of high-quality code, upholding the team’s commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Problem solving: Whether autonomously or by drawing on support from the wider team; provide solutions to new and existing challenges.

What you need to grab this opportunity:

• Programming languages and coding: despite our language-agnostic approach, proficiency in full-stack / back-end Software development languages in Rust and Java is required.
• Proficiency at reading, reviewing, understanding code.
• Understanding of implementation and the build & execution process is important: For example, strongly vs weakly typed, static vs dynamic, compiled vs interpreted
• RUST and JAVA Software Development experience
• Algorithms and data structures: ability to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution, in the shortest possible time.
• This includes the ability to suggest situations in which a certain data structure would be applicable for example, and why.
• Knowledge of services like AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS) is preferred. AWS knowledge/experience with any Cloud-based technologies would be useful.

Reference number for this position is GZ60697 which is a contract position based in Cape Town offering a long term contract rate of R850 per hour negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on az.oc.egrem-e@zhtrag or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 15 Jul 10:11, Closing date 13 Sep