Software Engineer
JUMO
South Africa
Salary not specified - Full-time
Job Description
About the Role
Software Engineer
Responsibilities
- Deliver across the SDLC to build a highly scalable distributed system.
- Assist in defining the team's roadmap in line with the company and technology vision.
- Architect services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and support our products and services
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback. Guide the team to consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors.
- Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays and cost ballooning within their team’s projects, before they require escalation.
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and drive best practices and engineering excellence
- Experience with Kotlin / Java / Scala, and a cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS. Python experience will be an added advantage
- Experience designing, developing and testing software
- Extensive hands-on experience with the design and development of high-volume/low-latency services
- Business and operational awareness
- Good communication skills & EQ
- able to work in a diverse team
- Work in an agile cross-functional team, delivering quality code you can be proud of
- Work with a modern but pragmatic Tech Stack (i.e. Kotlin + Spring Boot for Backend, TypeScript + React for Web and Mobile, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Datadog, GitHub Actions + ArgoCD for CI/CD, AWS), building a highly scalable distributed system
- Develop as a mentor, helping your junior colleagues grow as professionals
- Ensure consistency and accuracy when required
- Led and supported by an experienced, hands-on Tech Lead
- Collaborating with smart, engaging people
- Working for impact
- Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
- Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
- Flexible work practices enabling your best delivery
- Being autonomous and empowered to lead
