Job description

South Africa’s leading online retailer is looking for highly talented software development engineers to join their exciting team in Rosebank, Johannesburg. They are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people to join their team. They offer market related benefits, a great working environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great!

They are looking for a site reliability engineer to work on their platform team. You should be initiative and comfortable in taking ownership over assigned projects while working collaboratively in a team environment. You will work with technical colleagues and should be comfortable gathering and organising information into a sensible action plan.

If you would like to be part of a standard of excellence, then this may be the right place for you! Apply now!

Requirements

• Five+ years of experience in API and Web development
• Highly proficient with Python or PHP, and related web frameworks and web technologies, such as Django, Flask, or Laravel
• Relational databases
• Architecting, developing, testing and maintaining HTTP based APIs
• Development in a Linux
• Experience or interest in learning Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of version control systems (especially git)
• Advanced understanding of theoretical programming fundamentals, including but not limited to algorithms, data structures, design patterns and OOP
• Comfortable with the odd frontend job – must have basic skills with (X)HTML, CSS and JS

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and test code written in Python, working on a platform in Python and bash
• Building tooling around DevOps and Software Engineering best practices
• Draft technical specifications and briefs
• Monitor latency, performance, efficiency, and change management.
• Passionate about improving resilience and observability of distributed systems
• Perform code reviews
• Maintain and improve code quality
• Write and deploy robust and backwards-compatible code

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Engineering or Computer Science

Reference number for this position is GZ42207 which is a permanent position based in Rosebank offering a cost to company salary negotiable on experience and ability at around R700,000 per annum. Contact Garth on

az.oc.egrem-e@htrag

or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 19 Sep 09:07