Work In Tech

Founded in 2002, Zafin offers a SaaS product and pricing platform that simplifies core modernization for top banks worldwide. Our platform enables business users to work collaboratively to design and manage pricing, products, and packages, while technologists streamline core banking systems.

Zafin is backed by significant financial partners committed to accelerating the company’s growth and fueling our continued innovation. Our clients benefit from our 60 ecosystem partners and over 500 talented employees spread across 13 global offices.

Zafin is proud to be recognized as a top employer and certified Great Place to Work® in Canada, UK and India. Zafin is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with offices and customers around the globe including ING, CIBC, HSBC, Wells Fargo, PNC, and ANZ.

What is the opportunity?

As part of a collaborative cross-functional squad delivering value to our customers, you will be responsible for leading customer engagements from a technology and integration perspective. You will develop, review, test and integrate software code. You will also resolve code defects identified and aligned to internal and customer service requests.

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

What will you do?

• Work with senior team members to learn, review and assess product capabilities
• Understand standard out of the box interface specifications where applicable
• Understand requirements for the software features and enhancements to be developed
• Create, review and present technical solution documents
• Create and review technical specification documents
• Create and review design documents
• Convert requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria for application development and testing
• Code development with minimal guidance
• Conduct code reviews
• Create unit test scenarios and unit test cases to map coverage of the application functionality to documented use cases
• Conduct application performance tuning
• Root cause analysis
• Create root cause analysis documentation
• Communicate proactively with customers and internal team members to deliver business value as a part of daily 100% work management
• Lead triage sessions with customers and partners
• Train and guide junior members of the team to obtain necessary product and project knowledge
• Support team in developing product and customer knowledge base
• Learn and adopt new technologies as required by the organization

What do I need to succeed?

• Degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent study/experience
• An industry accepted certification in Java technologies (a goal to work towards)
• A basic knowledge of cloud concepts is desirable (a goal to work towards )

• Multiple years of experience working with customers and partners
• Agile, Scrum experience
• Familiarity/experience with process methodologies used in software industry
• Expertise in Java technologies
• Expertise in multi-threaded server-side programming
• Experience programming in user interface technologies
• Knowledge and working experience to use relational databases
• Expertise in application performance tuning
• Expertise with J2EE application servers
• Familiarity with automation of repeatable processes is desirable

Zafin welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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