Java Software Architect Cape Town Hybrid R1.6m PA

We move the entire industry forward. Were South Africas leading logistics platform combining real-world trucking with slick tech to help businesses move goods smarter faster and cheaper.

Weve built a powerful logistics engine. Now we need a Software Architect to help steer the ship shape the systems and scale our platform into a logistics juggernaut.
If you love designing robust systems making high-level tech decisions and leaving messy codebases cleaner than a spring-cleaned bakkie keep reading.

Youll Love This If You:

• Have 10 years in software engineering (and still get excited about clean architecture diagrams)
• Can design distributed systems in your sleep preferably while dreaming in REST and JSON
• Sound Java skills
• Know your way C# Azure SQL and maybe some container magic (Docker/K8s)
• Are passionate about performance security and maintainability (yes we like big words)
• Think DevOps isnt someone elses job
• Love solving complex challenges with simple elegant tech

Tech Youll Touch:

• .NET Core / C#
• Azure (Functions App Services Blob Storage you name it)
• Docker Kubernetes
• GitHub CI/CD pipelines
• SQL Server Redis
• REST APIs Event-Driven Architecture
• Monitoring tracing and logs galore

Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It):

• Architect scalable secure and beautiful systems (yes code can be beautiful)
• Guide and mentor dev teams like the Gandalf of Software
• Work with product and business teams to translate real-world problems into elegant digital solutions
• Own technical decisions from microservices to message queues to we probably shouldnt do that moments
• Future-proof our stack with smart choices and solid foundations

Reference Number for this position is GZ60691 which is a permanent hybrid position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R1.6m per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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