Environment:

An innovative e-commerce platform wants you as their next highly creative and forward-thinking engineering team lead (Database). The successful incumbent should have a Degree in Computer Science and should be efficient in the following technologies: RDMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Linux.

Duties:

• Lead you will lead a group of developers and testers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.
• You will need a strong understanding of large-scale e-commerce platforms, have experience installing, managing, and operating database systems.
• You will have a good understanding of architectural and design best practices.
• You will be an advocate of Agile engineering practices and you will have prior line management experience with a track record of keeping highly skilled developers motivated.
• This is an exciting opportunity to lead a growing team of engineers working on company’s ambitious development roadmap.
• This is a hands-on role: you should expect to spend at least 50% of your time working with others on your team. The other 50% of your time will be split between architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers and the day-to-day people management and development required of a high-performing and successful team.

Requirements:

Basic qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, or other software engineering degree.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading a team technically, with a focus on a very high-quality output.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing others technically.
• Experience working within an Agile team, and an advocate of that culture.
• Experience with an RDMS such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience in Linux.
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of database schema design, and query optimization.
• A thorough understanding of database principles.

Preferred skills:

• Post graduate degree preferred.
• Experience with and an understanding of line management responsibility for a technical team.
• Experience in operating a database system that supports distributed, transactional, and highly available systems.
• A thorough understanding of software engineering practices and best practices, including Agile software development, source code control systems, the use of IDEs, and testing tools.
• Experience working with non RDMS systems such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
• Experience working with the AWS and/or Azure platforms.

Attributes:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions.
• Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems.
• Solid quantitative skills.
• Ability to interview and interact professionally with internal and external people.
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally.
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Comments:

When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Please e-mail a word copy of your CV to

moc.nifatad@nerol

and mention the reference numbers of the jobs.

Posted on 20 Jul 14:33

We’re hiring! 

You’ve probably got a job but this one is totally better. 

We won’t give you the usual stuff agency spiel re: ‘passionate, energetic young creatives wanted to change hearts and minds etc.’ because that kind of chat makes us queasy. Do you like making stuff? Do you care about the stuff you make? Are you passionate about film? If you answered yes times three to these questions, we may have a job for you. 

It’s a full-time position, but we work in a flexible environment and we’re open to tweaking this and that to accommodate specific needs. Let’s chat!

Details (it’s all about the details)

Position term: Permanent/long-term (one-year minimum)

Required experience: Two to three years

Fluent in: Adobe Premiere, After Effects (mid-level experience) + Photoshop and Illustrator 

Probation period: Three months

Location: Cape Town

Must have:

• The ability to work autonomously as well as under the direction of others (don’t worry we give you freedom but not enough so you feel alone)
• Open to learning new skills and assisting on shoots (everyone who hops onto a job outside of their ‘9-5’ gets paid extra. We encourage this)
• Excellent communication skills and positive attitude (we’re all about that eye contact)
• Strong sense of aesthetics, composition and the ability to tell a story with creative editing and strong graphic sense and skills
• Must be an artist who fights the norm and is able to tell a badass story no matter what the brief

A bit more about us:

AVA is a boutique Cape Town based digital agency striving to connect brands to fans. We create stories by utilising the secret powers of film, animation, motion graphics and design. We’re obsessed with filmmaking and everything it entails. Check out our website at http://ava-online.co.za to find out more.

If you think you’re a good fit, send your CV and showreel to

az.oc.enilno-ava@ofni

and we can talk things through.

Posted on 20 Jul 11:13

Environment:

A fast-paced leading online retailer seeks a software engineer to join their teams in Cape Town (CBD), Stellenbosch and JHB. The role also includes working closely with the test lead to ensure quality is implemented and that quality standards are adhered to by converting manual test preparation into automated test preparation. The suitable candidate will develop, implement and maintain testing frameworks in all aspects such as Performance, UI and API, at a very low/code level.

Duties:

• Raise development quality by developing processes and best practices for testing in Dev teams.
• Improve and automate test strategies.
• Develop and execute test cases to diagnose issues and bugs, creating test data when required.
• Design, develop, execute and maintain automation scripts/code.
• Implement automation framework with continuous integration/deployment covering UI, API, unit and integration tests.
• Identify testing deficiencies and subsequently implementing automated tests based on their requirements
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
• Perform regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Increase code coverage across the team’s technology stack.
• Develop status reports based on test completion/findings and communicate these to team leaders including any impact on the overall project plan.
• Mentoring and guiding the test team on test approaches and automation suite.

Requirements:

• Degree in computer science, software engineering or related technical discipline.
• Minimum three years of commercial QA experience.
• Experience managing testing throughout the SDLC (development testing, unit/integration testing, API testing, performance testing, system testing and regression testing etc.)
• Strong experience with Python, Ruby, Java, C# and/or other OOP programming languages
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing.
• Understands web services (REST) and underlying protocols (HTTP/S, TCP/IP).
• Hands on experience with testing tools and frameworks Selenium, Robot, SOAPUI etc.
• An understanding of networking protocols.

Advantageous –

• ISTQB/ISEB qualification.

Attributes:

• Self-motivated with strong capability of fast learning.
• Ability to work efficiently both independently and within the team.
• Flexibility to learn new technologies and explore new tools with ease.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand and critique requirements.
• Excellent communication skills.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Comments:

When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Please email a word copy of your CV to

moc.nifatad@nyrat

and mention the reference numbers of the jobs.

Posted on 19 Jul 15:37

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