Senior Backend Engineer

4 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R420 000 - R840 000 per year


Responsibilities:
  • Work closely with the engineering team to release features on the product roadmap.
  • Be able to take full ownership of your feature releases, testing and reliability.
  • Gain a holistic understanding of the company stack, infrastructure, internal development requirements, resources as well as customer facing features.
  • You will be leading a team in this role and you are capable, experienced, willing and excited to step into a leadership and executive role, in the near future.
Requirements:
  • A University degree is not needed, but would be ideal. 
  • 5+ years of experience in the industry
  • Experience with leading a team of engineers e.g. team lead.
  • Experience with JavaScript ) and testing frameworks, as well as Python.
  • Experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure)
  • Ideally, experienced with Rust or WebRTC.
  • Ideally a devops knowledge - Nomad (or Kubernetes) and Docker, as well as knowledge of standard Linux networking and shell scripting.
  • While it wont be your focus, some familiarity with the usual frontend stack; HTML, CSS, JavaScript, a reactive framework like Vue or React and frontend testing frameworks like Jest and Cypress.

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