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senior backend engineer

3 months ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Crayon Full time

To find out more, click Apply or head on over to Crayon to review the full spec and apply

How you'll role

As the Senior Backend Engineer you will work on the core components of the company's platform. In collaboration with product managers and business stakeholders, you'll be primarily tasked with helping build the ecosystem to expand the value the product offers and increase the market to which it is applicable.

What you'll do

Become the subject matter expert in the company's technical ecosystemDrive engineering initiatives to completion, with a tenacious focus on rapid business impactInform technical prioritisation to deliver on goals with a sense of urgencySolve tough technical problems at any level of the stack, and be persistent in getting to the solution, whether it involves back-end, infrastructure, or front-end workWork collaboratively with cross-functional teams to plan and execute engineering initiatives

What you'll need

Extensive programming experience (Python and JavaScript)5+ years of experience working with Python in a web development environment4+ years of experience building customer facing websites or APIs4+ years of experience working closely with a production/live environment pushing new features, troubleshooting and pushing hotfixes in a team environment1+ years of experience with modern browser technologies based on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and at least any of the frontend/css frameworks (SvelteKit, React, Redux, SASS, Tailwind, etc.)Experience in building web systems with any of the python web frameworks (Django or Flask), or other similar web frameworksKnowledge and experience with data store technologies such as MySQL or PostgreSQLStrong computer science fundamentals: data structures and object oriented programming languagesStrong knowledge of basic design patterns. (MVP, MVVM)Experience running Docker, Docker Compose to setup your local environment and comfortable changing the setup / image when neededExperience working closely with the product team, designers, and other developersYou are comfortable working in a tech startup environment

Bonus points:

Degree in computer science (BSc, MSc) or equivalentExperience developing location-aware applicationsGitHub account with cool projects you've built or contributed toAmazon Web Services experienceExperience working with Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or any other container orchestration toolingExperience writing CI/CD pipelines for Jenkins / CircleCI or the likeExperience working with Message Queuing (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ or the likeExperience working with cross platform app development

The Stack

Python (Django)AWS ( Amazon ECS , ELBs , S3 , EC2 and others)Docker / Docker ComposeReact NativeGraphQLMySQLSveltekitTailwindGit

To find out more, click Apply or head on over to Crayon to review the full spec and apply