Software Engineer jobs in South Africa

• A desire to achieve commercial outcomes
• 2+ years of professional software development experience working with at least one modern language such as Java, Typescript, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Strong knowledge of databases, data structures, algorithms, REST and modern architectures
• Experience in delivering mobile applications or serverless applications
• Ability to take a project from identifying objectives, defining the testing plan, implementing testing all the way through to actual launch of the project and ongoing monitoring of the performance of the project.
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating
• Experience using Amazon Web Services, including Lambda, API Gateway, and load balancing
• Experience with Flutter or other modern front-end frameworks
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
• Knowledge implementing collaboration tools and CI/CD pipelines for source control management, build, testing, release and and operations.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities

Responsibilities:

• Understand the primary commercial imperatives
• Envision the technology that will support the commercial imperatives with feedback from the in-country operations teams and sales network
• Design, build, test, maintain and manage robust software solutions to enable the operations team to achieve their jobs and ultimately the companies objective to serve customers
• Support and mentor Junior Developersin embedding healthy code practice and principles.
• In the early project phase, this means architecture, data model and interface design, and in the implementation phase with review, release planning and execution.