Back-end Developer

Growth Lending Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Cape Town is seeking a skilled Back-end Developer to join their dynamic team. You will work on bespoke platforms supporting business needs, develop interactive applications, and contribute to building AI capabilities. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge of ASP.NET Core and C#.net, along with the ability to work collaboratively in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Enhanced parental leave policies

Coaching and mentoring programs

Diversity and inclusion focus

Qualifications

• Experience with web frameworks, particularly ASP.NET Core.
• Strong C#.net coding skills.
• Background in financial services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop maintainable and efficient systems.
• Translate user requirements into interactive applications.
• Collaborate within a geographically distributed team.

Skills

ASP.NET Core

C#.net

AI experience

SQL Server

React.js

Git/Azure Devops

Tools

Visual Studio

Azure

Entity Framework Core

Hangfire

Twitter Bootstrap 4.5

Job description

We work with innovative and high-growth SMEs, helping them to accelerate their growth by providing flexible credit and debt solutions. We provide facilities from £100,000 to £30m and have lent more than £1bn to SMEs in the UK over the last decade. We have offices across the UK, US, in Manila and in Cape Town. We are expanding internationally and know that building our own bespoke technologies is vital to our growth, so this is a truly exciting time to join.

We design, build and maintain our own proprietary platform. The platform will eventually cover the full range of business needs. It currently supports client reporting, investor portal, term loans and bridge loan products. We have an exciting roadmap to extend and further integrate the current functionality. Over the coming years, the scope of the system will continue to expand.

We need a skilled, driven Back-end Developer. You\'ll join a team building the bespoke platform that is driving forward our organisation. We design, develop and deploy maintainable and efficient systems. Taking our user requirements, we translate them into powerful, appealing interactive applications. As part of that team, you\'ll write well-designed, testable code in various languages. The aim is always to produce elegant and easy-to-maintain solutions. As we want to build out our AI capabilities, we need an AI enthusiast, ideally with demonstrable experience.

You will report into our Lead Developer (Manila) and be a member of our in-house team. You’ll also work alongside our Product Manager and Business Analysts in Cape Town. This is a high-profile project within Growth Lending. Our business needs this portfolio of systems to power our success, so this is a great opportunity for a thoughtful, creative developer to grow in their home country within a UK-based business.

Strong technical capability is the basic requirement with AI experience. Experience working in financial services is advantageous. Front-end development experience is also beneficial. We seek someone who can work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team and welcomes change. You\'ll most enjoy this role if you strive for high-quality end products while achieving success within a cohesive team. In return, we offer exceptional professional growth through a mixture of training, coaching and mentoring.

To succeed in this role, you will need to demonstrate experience of the following tech stack:

• Web Framework: ASP.NET Core (essential)
• Database: SQL Server
• MVVM Framework: React.js
• Programming Language: C#.net
• Background task runner: Hangfire
• ORM Framework: Entity Framework Core
• Layout Grid: Twitter Bootstrap 4.5
• Source Control: Git/Azure Devops
• Visual Studio
• Server: Azure

We do things differently. From the start we have focused on driving up diversity and inclusion in the financial services space. We strive constantly to ensure that throughout our team, at all levels, we achieve a diversity that matches the world around us and not just the sector in which we operate.

To support this aim we offer every member of the team the following:

• An organisation that embraces and encourages diversity, top to bottom and end to end
• Diverse recruitment panels
• Enhanced parental leave policies and practices
• Flexible working patterns, including working from home and fitting around the family, plus part-time positions where possible from a business perspective
• Strictly monitored and enforced pay equality
• One-to-one coaching and mentoring programme from a highly skilled and experienced People team
• Access to high quality internal and external training
• Excellent benefits and Employee Assistance Programme as standard, with additional external support when required

When we say that everyone is welcome, we can prove that we mean it. We are a highly supportive employer and we know we only get the best of the best when the only things we judge are experience, skills and aptitude. Our organisational culture celebrates difference and encourages individuality, so start thinking about where you fit in.