OM Bank - Senior Python Back-end Engineer

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Lets Write Africas Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

Job Description

The role of the Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and building solutions under a serverless architecture model.

The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.

KEY RESULT AREAS

Build solutions from requirements received from product owner.
Be able to work in agile environment.
Able to build POC solutions and demonstrate/present.
Maintain a stable server with zero downtime
Develop tools and applications by producing clean code
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
Review and debug code
Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis problem definition requirements solution development and proposed solutions
Mentor junior engineers
Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
Be able to report on their work using agile tools such as JIRA.

Be able to elaborate and document his work in confluence.
Be communicative and proactive.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

AWS components such as Lambda SQS Dynamo DB
AWS API Gateway
Terraform
Python 3.9
Pytest
Knowledge of Rest API integrations
Openapi swagger
GitHub actions for CI CD
Docker and Docker compose
Makefile
Apache velocity language
Proven experience as a Back-end developer

Skills

Action Planning Application Development Business Process Design Computer Literacy Data Management Data Modeling Evaluating Information Identifying Customer Needs Information Technology (IT) Support Market Analysis Oral Communications Product Development Technical Support Technical Troubleshooting Test Case Management User Requirements Documentation Web Development

Competencies

Business Insight

Collaborates

Courage

Cultivates Innovation

Decision Quality

Drives Results

Ensures Accountability

Manages Complexity

Education

Closing Date

04 September 2025 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

The Old Mutual Story!

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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