Java Engineer - AI Agent Development

About the role

Accso, a digital partner for custom software solutions with an AI-native mindset, is hiring a Java Engineer in Cape Town. You will solve challenging software engineering problems across a wide range of projects for large German and South African clients, designing and building backend services, REST APIs and integration layers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement robust software solutions using AI agent-based development methods and tools throughout the process.
• Build backend services, REST APIs and integration layers, applying object-oriented design and established design patterns.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient and readable code that meets internal and customer standards, and deliver thoroughly tested and debugged software.
• Contribute to code reviews, performance tuning and CI/CD practices and help raise the team's engineering standards.
• Develop project environments: rule files, context documentation, MCP server configurations and scaffolding that optimises AI collaboration.
• Review and validate AI-generated code critically, understanding failure modes, common hallucinations and quality indicators.

Required profile

• University degree in computer science or a comparable discipline.
• At least 5 years of professional software development experience, including hands-on work with the listed technologies.
• Enjoyment of agile methods such as Scrum or Design Thinking.
• Proactive, pragmatic and team-oriented, with strong collaboration and communication skills and a drive for continual improvement.

Required skills

• Java and JavaScript
• Spring and Kotlin
• Maven and Gradle
• JUnit

What we offer

• Open communication at eye level and appreciation.
• Health insurance.
• Family-friendly and flexible working hours.
• Projects in different industries with leading German and European companies.
• Option to switch to part time if needed.
• In-house tech communities (ML, Green IT, Architecture, IoT).
• Modern, well-equipped office in a nice location.