Junior Web & Backend Software Engineer

PayProp and Reapit – Who are we?

PayProp, a Reapit company, offers a tech platform for letting agents that lets them automate every part of the rental transaction. PayProp is easier to use and more powerful than solutions by banks and traditional software vendors.

We’re a seasoned team of professionals with expertise in property, banking, finance, risk management and technology, as well as building and managing highly secure cloud-based Web applications.

Worldwide, Reapit technology is used by over 78,000 agents in more than 15,000 branches, with over a million properties under management; enabling them to run their businesses, identify opportunities for growth, manage their properties, collect rent, communicate with their clients, and deliver an outstanding customer experience, every time.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Team Lead you’ll be involved in:

• Prototype product features based on business requirements;
• Develop, test, debug, maintain and refactor product features;
• Develop, test, debug and maintain Perl back end code, SQL queries and front end templates;
• Develop, update and maintain technical documentation;
• Provide internal support for system-related questions and issues.
• Troubleshooting and finding the root causes of issues
• Communicating with internal/external clients
• System monitoring
• Ad-hoc tasks as required

Who we’re looking for

At PayProp, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.

• 2+ years of back end web development experience
• Object Oriented programming knowledge
• Familiar with modern MVC web frameworks
• Understanding of testing and continuous integration
• Experience with virtual machines for development (VMs)
• Good database (MySQL) knowledge
• Experienced with revision control (git) and multi-developer projects
• Write and maintain technical documentation
• Strong attention to detail
• Minimum 2 years professional experience
• Excellent English communication skills
• Passionate about learning new languages and technologies

Beneficial Experience and Skills:

• Perl development experience especially with modern MVC frameworks (Mojolicious, Catalyst, Dancer) and testing (Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Most)
• Interacting with APIs
• Linux command line
• Developing in AWS environment

What your impact and success looks like

As a Junior Back End and Web Developer we expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this:

Within 1 month:

• Gain familiarity with Perl language
• Set up your dev environment
• Have a high level understanding of what we do

Within 3 months:

• Completed at least one task
• Be familiar with the platform
• Be able to resolve issues within dev environment

Within 6 months:

• Work independently
• Be familiar with code base
• Actively contribute to the product

What’s in it for you?

We operate a Flexible Working Policy and we would like for you to work from home with the option of working from our Stellenbosch office when required.

We’re offering the chance to really make a difference here at PayProp and the opportunity for personal growth is very real. You’ll feel part of a special team. You can expect a highly competitive salary and some great benefits, including:

• 20 Leave days
• Volunteer days
• 5% employer pension contribution (4% minimum employee contribution)
• Remote work

Don’t tick all the boxes? Neither do we

We care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we’re driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success.

We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all.

We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all our employees.