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Job title: Senior Software Engineer
Reporting to: Software Engineering Team Lead
Location: Our Lula head office is based in Cape Town; however for this role we are open to applications from across South Africa.
ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANYS EE TARGETS
WHAT WE DO
Lula is an innovative and humanfocused FinTech company on a mission to help small businesses optimise their cash flow. Our purpose is to help SMEs manage their businesses better faster and more simply so they can spend more time doing what they love.
If youre looking for a new place to call home that believes in the potential of the broader SME landscape in South Africa and a place where youll work with awesome people then Lulas the place for you!
Were making business banking fast human Lula!
OUR VALUES
Collaborative were a clan and work together as a team always towards a common goal
Committed were accountable and follow through no matter the challenge
Curious we look for better ways to do things and make a positive difference
Connected we stay close to learn from and look to understand each other and our customers
Compassionate we go out of our way to care about our colleagues our customers and our community
OVERALL PURPOSE
Our platform is the market leader in online business lending is based on the Microsoft stack and is hosted in the cloud.
We are looking for a motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic vibrant and energetic Engineering team. The successful candidate will be required to contribute towards system architecture technical decision making planning and development of platform features and advance our platform to the next phase of operation and functionality. The application is the market leading online small business lending platform which incorporates all aspects from multiple API integrations with other fintech platforms to advanced business logic around risking pricing and machine learning prediction for quick turnaround funding offers.
In addition the successful candidate will be required to mentor junior Developers and be an active member of code reviewing sessions. Furthermore taking responsibility for project delivery and system maintenance.
This role will expose you to several aspects of software development service provider integrations full stack technologies project responsibility and team mentorship.
Responsibilities will include:
- Extend and maintain existing and new software systems on the Lula platform (and/or Lula white labeled/partner platforms)
- Project scheduling planning reporting and analysis tasks
- Planning estimating and continuously improving code quality system design and processes
- Work with the business to understand and implement complex requirements
- Technical advice and system architecture
- Driving Engineering Excellence within Lula
- Collaboration between product delivery teams
- Mentorship of more junior team members
- Technology research and keeping a constant eye on changing industry ideas and practices and monitoring emerging technologies
- Participation in technical architecture/problem resolution sessions
- Work in an agile environment assisting in the move towards Continuous Deployment
THE COMPETENCIES WERE AFTER
- Full stack development exposure
- Ability to mentor more junior team members
- Efficiency and optimisation driven
- Analytical thinker
- Problem solver
- Attention to detail
- Innovative
- Advanced communication skills
- Team player
- Knowledge sharing
- Interest and passion for technology
THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WERE LOOKING FOR
- A relevant tertiary level qualification (BSc in Computer Science BTech BEng) or equivalent
- Honours and/or Masters degree an added advantage
- 6 years experience in object oriented development (Preferably C# or Java)
- Solid experience in testdriven development
- Exposure to any of the following:
- architectural design principles
- secure coding practices
- frontend scripting technologies (Javascript Jquery React)
- Mobile development utilising ReactNative
- API design with a openAPI preference
- microservices and/or service oriented architecture
- cloud based environments (Preferably Azure)
- database design
- Agile development
- source control (e.g Git)
Please note that all appointments are subject to our background checking process which may include Credit Criminal and any other job inherent checks
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
