Technology Domain Specialist - Junior

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  • Johannesburg, Gauteng
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
  • Apply easily
Contract positionMinimum Requirements:
  • B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
  • Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku
  • Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes
  • Required experience in REST API development
  • Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework
  • .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS
  • Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ
  • Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker
  • Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & DataDog
  • Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
  • Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems
  • Experience working within an agile development environment
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team
  • Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects
  • This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required
Nice-to-have Skills:
  • Experience using Node.js tools
  • Experience with backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
  • Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest)
  • Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
  • Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc)
  • Experience with Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
  • Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
  • Experience with Datadog
  • Experience with AWS services
  • Experience using Terrafrom
Responsibilities:
  • We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large- scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability.
  • Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the company's software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process.
  • The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.
  • The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimizations.
  • The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the business including the Backend Software Engineers,
  • Product Management, Infrastructure/DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap. They will need to Seek constant feedback from different users and data to help the team to prioritize and iterate on solutions.
  • Be involved in mentoring less experienced software engineers in the team

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