Senior Software Engineer Python Remote
Senior Software Engineer Python Remote
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Job Description
Duties & Responsibilities
ENVIRONMENT:
A leading online retailer in South Africa is seeking an Intermediate Python Developer to join their dynamic team. As a Software Engineer you will play a key role in developing highquality scalable software solutions within the ecommerce sector. You will have the opportunity to enhance existing systems by implementing best practices and contribute to the development of new features. The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelors degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or possess equivalent practical experience. A minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience in software development is required along with a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals including objectoriented design data structures and algorithms.
DUTIES:
- Design and build solutions to assist the business users and improve customer experience
- Architect and design solutions with your team
- Develop code making major improvements to nonfunctional areas
- Develop highquality production code for work of high complexity and scale
- Utilize and improve functional and nonfunctional testing practices
- Champion challenge and iterate on best practices within engineering
- Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision tradeoffs typically system or domainwide
- Participate in and collaborate on architecture proposals across engineering
- Support alignment of architecture across the organisation
- Respond to and resolve bugs in production for systems in your division
- Respond to alerts and support incident response within your division
- Investigate and drive the resolution of issues that impact multiple teams
- Support challenge existing and define new engineering processes and directives
- Review and contribute fixes and content to internal documentation
- React to technology trends identifying risks and opportunities for your divisions technologies systems and domains
- Share knowledge through blog posts tech talks and workshops across engineering
- Contribute to discussions and decisions in the division
- Challenge others to always produce work of the highest quality
- REST and RPC API implementation and maintenance (using Python)
- Develop and maintain automation tests
- Liaise with various internal stakeholders to discuss project requirements progress etc.
REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelors degree or an Advanced Diploma in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5 to 10 years in a software development role
- A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals including objectoriented design data structures and algorithms
- Experience in writing robust efficient production code
- Proficient in a strongly typed open source language such as Python Java Golang etc
- Exposure to RESTful APIs and web services.
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
Experience in the following will be advantageous:
- Familiarity with microservices architecture
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- MySQL PostgreSQL MS SQL
- Memcached Redis
- Message Brokers Queues and PubSub systems (e.g. Kafka and RabbitMQ)
- Containerisation (e.g. Docker)
- Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
- GitHub Travis CI Jenkins
- AWS GCP Azure
- JavaScript React jQuery
ATTRIBUTES:
- Solutionsoriented cando attitude and high energy
- Strong analytical and critical thinking using data to inform decisions
- Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
- Solid quantitative skills
- Capability to present ideas succinctly in writing and verbally
- Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing
While we 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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Desired Experience & Qualification
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
