Lead Python Backend Engineer

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Job Description

ROLE OVERVIEW

The role of the Lead Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and leading the design and development of solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build solutions from requirements received from product owner
• Be able to work in agile environment.
• Able to build POC solutions and demonstrate/present.
• Maintain a stable server with zero downtime
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean code
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Review and debug code
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
• Be able to report on his work using agile tools such as JIRA.
• Be able to elaborate and document their work in confluence.
• Communicative and proactive.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications & Professional Affiliations

• Relevant University Degree and Professional Qualification.

Experience

• AWS components such as Lambda, SQS, Dynamo DB
• AWS API Gateway
• Terraform
• Python 3.9
• Pytest
• Knowledge of Rest API integrations
• Openapi, swagger
• GitHub actions for CI CD
• Docker and Docker compose
• Makefile
• Apache velocity language
• Proven experience as a Back-end developer

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit.

Skills

• Action Planning
• Adaptive Thinking
• Agile Project Management
• Budget Management
• Change Management
• Current State Assessment
• Data Compilation
• Evaluating Information
• Executing Plans
• Futures Thinking
• Gaps Analysis
• IT Implementation
• Learning and Development (L&D)
• Managing Stakeholder Expectations
• Oral Communications
• Policies & Procedures
• Project Life Cycle Management
• Project Performance Management (PM)
• Project Quality Assurance
• Project Reporting
• Project Risk Management
• Project Schedule Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Strategy

Competencies

• Business Insight
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Cultivates Innovation
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Develops Talent

Closing Date

10 April 2025 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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