Software Engineer Fullstack - Cape Town
Software Engineer Fullstack - Cape Town
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Job Description
Collinson is a global loyalty and benefits company.
We use our expertise and products to craft customer experiences which enable some of the worlds best known brands to acquire engage and retain the most demanding and choice-rich particular our unique expertise and insight into high earning frequent travellers allows us to create products and solutions for our clients that inspire greater customer engagement to drive more profitable relationships enrich their travel experiences protect what matters and assist in in times of need.
While specialising in Financial Services Travel and Retail we also support clients in multiple sectors. We have worked with over 90 airlines 20 hotel groups and more than 600 financial institutions and banks with clients including Accor Hotels Air France KLM American Express British Airways Cathay Pacific Diners Club Mandarin Oriental Mastercard Radisson Hotel Group Sephora Visa and Vhi.
We take our 30 years experience working with these kinds of household names in over 170 countries and help our clients to deliver the smarter experiences it takes to differentiate their propositions and help them win deeper devotion with their customers.
Collinson is a privately-owned entrepreneurial business with 2000 passionate people working in 20 locations worldwide. Our solutions include Priority Pass the worlds best known airport experiences programme while we are also the trusted partner behind many of the leading financial services airline and hotel brands reward programmes and loyalty initiatives.
Purpose of the job
As a Software Engineer youll be a core member of a cross-functional product squad building new features and services as part of a modern cloud-native platform. Youll be working with experienced engineers Product Managers and QAs to develop scalable well-tested systems using a contemporary tech stack; all in a greenfield environment.
This is a hands-on role where youll spend most of your time coding refining technical tasks and solving real user problems through software. Youll learn by doing pairing with others when needed and contributing to everything from front-end interfaces to backend services and APIs.
Were big on engineering quality; this entails end-to-end CI/CD observability infrastructure-as-code and automated testing are baked into how we work. Youll be encouraged to explore new ideas use AI-powered tools where helpful and continuously sharpen your skills as an engineer.
If youre looking for a role where you can write great code grow your experience across the stack and ship features that matter please apply.
Key Responsibilities
- Write clean efficient and testable code (for both frontend and backend services) owning features and services from design to deployment.
- Work closely with your squad (PMs engineers QAs) to refine requirements contribute to scoping technical solutions and deliver great software.
- Write unit and integration tests and contribute to a robust CI/CD setup that ensures safe reliable releases.
- Deploy and operate software in AWS using tools like Terraform Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
- Take part in code reviews retrospectives and regular feedback sessions to improve as an engineer.
- Take responsibility for the health performance and maintainability of the code you ship.
- Look for opportunities to improve development workflows using AI-powered tooling and automation.
- Be a mentor and teacher to less experienced engineers.
- Develop in an Agile environment using tools like Git Jira and Confluence with a mindset of collaboration and continuous improvement.
Preferred
- Computer Science or Information Technology degree Diploma or similar
Non-negotiable
- 2-4 years of experience in software development with a strong focus on TypeScript ( & React) and strong knowledge of JavaScript fundamentals.
- Comfortable with basic cloud development on a Cloud platform (AWS & Azure) using CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) and tools like Terraform.
- Familiar with writing unit tests and automated tests and understand the importance of test coverage maintainability and regression safety.
- You enjoy solving engineering problems and are comfortable breaking down tasks asking questions and working through ambiguity.
- Youre eager to learn from your teammates and grow as a full-stack engineer actively participating in a team committed to continuous improvement.
Personal Attributes
- Show initiative: self-driven independent problem-solver who take ownership end-to-end
- Innately curious: constantly questioning learning and seeking deeper understanding
- Innovative: think outside the box and be creative and implement ideas that enhance our systems - innovation is valued highly at Collinson
- Communicative collaborator: share openly work across teams and integrate feedback
- Strong analytical and investigative problem-solving skills
- Hungry and eager to make a difference at a technical and operational level
- The ability to get things done we dont like micro-management but we expect you to do the right thing
- An attitude of being proud of your code and taking ownership
Interview Process
We want our process to be fair and transparent so its only right that we tell you what the various interview stages are:
Stage 1 Well do a screener call with our recruitment team where you can learn a bit more about Collinson our values and we can confirm what youre looking for in a new role.
Stage 2 You will do a technical test (at home) and well review your solution and approach to it. This is a for us to get a clearer picture of your current skill level and about your strengths through your submission.
Stage 3 This is final and main stage where well meet you for 1h and youll get to spend time with different members of the engineering team including Engineering Manager the Principal Engineer and/or Senior Software Engineer. Well also go through your technical test and ask questions on some of your design decisions architectural and technical implementation.
Stage 4 Stage 5 - 30 minute discussion with our Head of Architecture & Engineering
Employment Type
Full Time
