Java Backend Developer

Paracon · Cape Town, Western Cape · R Undisclosed

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer with deep Telecommunications OSS/BSS expertise to design, develop, and maintain large-scale, mission-critical digital platforms. The successful candidate will play a key role in building and enhancing customer, product, billing, charging, orchestration, and service provisioning solutions within a complex telecommunications environment. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java development, microservices, API integration, OSS/BSS platforms, cloud-native architectures, CI/CD practices, and a passion for leveraging emerging technologies, including AI-driven engineering capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Software Development & Architecture

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-performance Java applications.
  • Build scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise-grade software systems.
  • Develop distributed systems and microservices architectures.
  • Contribute to solution design and technical architecture discussions.
  • Optimize applications for scalability, performance, availability, and reliability.
  • Participate in code reviews and enforce engineering best practices.

OSS/BSS Platform Development

  • Design and implement solutions across OSS/BSS domains including:
  • Customer Management
  • Partner Management
  • Product Catalogue
  • Offers and Bundles
  • Billing and Settlement
  • Charging Systems
  • Order Management
  • Order Capture
  • Service Fulfilment
  • Service Provisioning
  • Assurance and Support
  • Develop and maintain integrations between OSS/BSS platforms and external systems.
  • Support end-to-end telecom business processes from customer onboarding through billing and service assurance.

API & Integration Development

  • Design and develop RESTful APIs and integration services.
  • Build and maintain multi-provider API integrations.
  • Implement API security, monitoring, and performance optimization.
  • Integrate with third-party partners, network systems, billing platforms, and enterprise applications.
  • Support TM Forum Open API standards where applicable.

Orchestration & Automation

  • Develop workflow orchestration solutions and state-machine driven business processes.
  • Implement automated service fulfilment and provisioning workflows.
  • Build event-driven architectures supporting real-time service activation and operational processes.
  • Drive automation initiatives across telecom operational environments.

Operations & Reliability

  • Build solutions that support
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Incident management
  • Event correlation
  • Operational visibility
  • Service assurance
  • Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
  • Participate in production support and operational readiness activities.

Cloud, DevOps & CI/CD

  • Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and optimization.
  • Manage application deployments through automated delivery pipelines.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation practices.
  • Work within cloud-native and containerized environments.
  • Champion DevOps culture and engineering excellence.

AI & Engineering Innovation

  • Evaluate and adopt modern AI-driven development tools and engineering practices.
  • Utilize AI-assisted development capabilities to improve developer productivity.
  • Contribute to innovation initiatives and continuous improvement efforts.
  • Explore opportunities to leverage AI in operational automation and customer experience platforms.

Desired Skills

  • CI/CD
  • OSS/BSS
  • API integration
  • Java development
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