Job Overview

Job Type

Full Time

Pay

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Job description

Location:: South Africa
Work arrangement:: On-site

Senior Software Engineer (Python) at Boardroom Appointments in South Africa.

Responsibilities

Writes code & tests and pushes to production independently.
Reviews code, providing valuable improvements for the team.
Designs system-level code and delivers significant team-level projects.
Creates and executes unit test plans.
Develops detailed technical analysis and design specifications based on functional requirements.
Investigates and resolves defects.
Participates in functional and technical specification reviews.
Participates in creating and executing integration level test plans.
Monitor services and systems within our infrastructure.
Works effectively across multiple teams to deliver large projects.
Mentors more junior developers.
Continuously improve the architecture methodologies and find ways to improve code design, system performance, high scalability and security vulnerabilities.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent 8 years experience.
5-8 years in professional software development.
Proven mastery of at least one OO programming language.
In-depth knowledge of networking, databases, data structures, algorithms, cloud computing, security, code design, distributed systems and testing.
Understands how to build solutions at scale without increasing technical debt.
In-depth understanding of coding best practices, system scalability, security and performance tuning.
Solid experience in relational databases.
Solid experience in issue tracking systems.

Bonus points

Flask / Django
PHP (Laravel)
A JavaScript framework (Node.js, Vue.js)
Elastic Search
MySQL
Google BigQuery
Linux fundamentals
Docker / Kubernetes
Event driven architectures (PubSub/Kafka)
Experience with e-commerce based applications

About the Company

We're not your average tech company we're a rocket-fueled, innovation-driven powerhouse that's changing the game. Our mission? To bring together the most incredible tech talent with companies that are shaping the future. We're talking AI, IoT, blockchain, and all the mind-blowing buzzwords you can think of!