Senior Software Engineer

Area / Job Type

Cape Town area, South Africa (hybrid & flexi-hours)

Permanent - Fulltime 

The Company

Our client develops and maintains software for business customers in the online casino and lottery industries. Our client’s ultimate goal is to create a safe and fun environment for the entertainment of their customers’ players.

Job Description

Our client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their team. They are looking for talented individuals with a passion and strong drive for self-improvement. The ideal candidates have a preference for working in teams in an agile environment. 

Key Performance Indicators

• Write quality, consistent solutions following best practices utilising OOP, TDD, BDD, FDD, SDLC, Coding Standards, Peer Review, Continuous Integration, 12 Factor App, DORA Metrics, Enterprise, and Microservices Design Patterns.
• Interact with technical (architects) and non-technical (business) stakeholders.
• Propose and implement efficient business and technical goals.
• Anticipate requirements and build software in a flexible, scalable way.
• Communicate issues, risks, and dependencies with line managers, escalating where appropriate.
• Function within an agile environment:
• Attend and contribute to agile ceremonies.
• Assist with a breakdown of tasks from business requirements into technical solutions.
• Help the team understand the technical requirements, so that they can achieve consistent velocity.
• Document solutions and assist others in doing their documentation.
• Communicate constructively and effectively and be passionate about mentoring team members and peer review in person or virtually.
• Accurately track time within the systems provided on a daily basis.
• Deliver on sprint commitments.
• Contribute to team planning, discussions, and solution designs.
• Take guidance from and support your line manager.
• Report accurately on progress both within the systems and directly to your line manager.

Personal Characteristics

• You display strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• You are a lateral thinker, who can solve problems using creative reasoning.
• You are a curious person who learns and improves your professional skills.
• You have the enthusiasm to learn and expand your technical knowledge as both a manual and automation engineer.
• You are a dependable person, who delivers consistent quality.
• You collaborate well within a team environment and develop relationships with the other teams and stakeholders in your area.
• You have a friendly, positive, and proactive attitude to your role and your colleagues.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and can interact professionally with a diverse group of people.

Soft Skills

• Communicate clearly and effectively to all levels of the organisation.
• Convey technically complex topics to developers.
• Convey technical concepts to the business unit (Product or C-level).
• Condense elaborate technical topics into summaries.

Key Skills

Modelling:

• UML

JDK latest LTS:

• JIT Optimisation
• JPMS

Spring Cloud:

• Configuration
• Discovery
• Stream
• Integration
• Gateway

Spring Data:

• JPA
• RDBMS
• ANSI SQL
• Normalisation
• Indexing
• NoSQL
• Caching
• Flyway
• Spring Security

Spring Boot:

• Observability
• Testing
• AOP
• Validation
• AOT for GraalVM using buildpacks
• JAXB
• Eventing

Spring Web:

• Sync and Async controllers

IntelliJ:

• Debugging procedures
• Refactoring
• Optimisation

Maven:

• Multi-module environment

Git:

• Sharing a repo with 15+ active developers
• Branch management
• Git hooks
• GitLab CI
• Gitlab Environments

Cloud: (beneficial)

• GKE K8s
• ArgoCD
• Scale to zero
• Observability
• Alerting

Front-end: (beneficial)

• VueJS
• Angular
• Typescript
• Promises, Observables & RxJS
• Webpack
• Testing frameworks

Responsibilities

• Conform to all ISO-based company policies and procedures.
• Conform to all customer SLAs.

Benefits

• Flexi hours (with the exception of core hours).
• Unlimited coffee in their brand new office made with love by their barista.
• 21 days annual leave.
• The teams are exposed to quality learning platforms, and if you’re self-driven, you will be able to learn and use that knowledge to improve your own skills and deliver better solutions to the business.