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Job Location drjobs

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

DataFin was established in 1999. We pride ourselves on the fact that we have established relationships with industry leaders and a vast majority of our business is repeat business.

Duties & Responsibilities

ENVIRONMENT:

A leading web hosting company is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join its team. In this role you will tackle complex largescale backend challenges while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing backend software and APIs implementing objectoriented programming using languages such as Ruby and developing software within a Linux/Unix environment. Additionally you will leverage containerization platforms like Docker or Kubernetes to enhance system performance and scalability.

DUTIES:

  • Solving interesting and large scale backend technical challenges
  • Being part of figuring out how they get better at what they do
  • Looking for opportunities to innovate and optimize
  • Understanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders of course)
  • Supporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team

You probably have a passion for:

  • Programming opensource Technologies and IT in general
  • Optimal systems and simple procedures
  • Agile development and a selforganizing team environment
  • Sharing ideas and innovation
  • Solving interesting and large scale backend technical challenges
  • Being part of figuring out how they get better at what they do
  • Looking for opportunities to innovate and optimize
  • Understanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders of course)
  • Supporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team

REQUIREMENTS:

Your qualifications include:

  • BSc majoring in Computer Science will be advantageous however your ability to demonstrate your track record of writing quality backend software is what ultimately counts
  • A minimum of 4 years of software development experience
  • Minimum of 2 years supporting a large scale application in an operational capacity

If your experience includes the following it would be great:

  • Thinking like a hacker and diving into the security details of the software youve built
  • Experience with Rancher Docker Swarm or other container orchestration platforms
  • Understanding of database design and performance tuning (MySQL Redis etc.
  • Experience with DevOps on a Linux based platform
  • Experience with system administration on a Linux based platform

ATTRIBUTES:

  • Effective communication
  • Selfmotivation and selfmanagement
  • LifeLong Learning

While they 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:

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Employment Type

Full-Time

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