An opportunity exists for a skilled Backend Engineer to own and evolve Java platform architecture, lead backend engineering initiatives, and drive technical decisions while actively contributing to code development. The role involves hands-on leadership, architectural ownership, and ensuring system reliability and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities
• Provide hands-on technical leadership while writing code and setting architectural direction
• Collaborate with Product Management to design and deliver new and enhanced features
• Own Java architecture decisions and contribute to long-term technical vision
• Write clear architecture decision records, technical specs, and maintain high-quality documentation
• Identify, prioritize, and execute on technical debt and improvements to system reliability, performance, and maintainability
• Support production systems and lead incident response
• Ensure the team builds with operational excellence in mind
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering growth and knowledge sharing

Requirements
• 7–10+ years of Java development experience, with strong backend/server-side focus
• Expertise in event-driven architecture: Kafka, event sourcing, CQRS, and asynchronous messaging at scale
• Experience with distributed microservices architectures and proper failure handling
• Deep knowledge of the Spring ecosystem
• Strong database expertise: PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS, query optimization, transaction management
• Positive, solution-oriented mindset and strong communication skills
• Proven project ownership: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support
• Ability to collaborate with product managers, designers, DevOps, and engineering teams

Should you meet the requirements for this position, please email your CV to it.jobs@mspstaffing.co.za. You can also contact the IT team on XXX-XXXX or visit the website at https://mspstaffingza.co/