Data Platform Engineer (Python/SQL) - Cape Town

Confluence; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Time Off

Global Career Development

Social Events

Referral Bonus up to $3,000 per valid转

Job summary

Confluence is seeking a Software Engineer with a data‑engineering focus to join the Data Team in Cape Town. You will help migrate legacy data logic to Python, build a robust data API, and work across SQL Server, Snowflake, and SQLAlchemy in a multi‑tenant platform.

This backend role emphasizes data correctness, performance, and integration of diverse data sources, with Azure and DevOps capabilities to deploy and operate what you build.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/development, Computer Science, or related field.
• 1-3 years of experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Python (3.12+) backend development — FastAPI, Pydantic v2, async/await — and T-SQL, with deep comfort in the data and service layers of an enterprise application.
• Expert-level SQL Server and data engineering: parameterized query authoring, query optimization and execution-plan analysis, indexing strategy, set-based processing, and bulk / ETL data movement and large-dataset performance tuning — plus comfort migrating logic out of legacy stored procedures into Python.
• Exposure to modern cloud data platforms and warehouses (e.g. Snowflake) and an interest in integrating multiple, heterogeneous data sources — each just another SQLAlchemy dialect — behind a unified API.

Responsibilities

• Develop data API and backend services within the Data Team.
• Collaborate across the data platform focusing on data correctness and performance.

Skills

Python backend

FastAPI

Pydantic

async/await

T‑SQL

SQL Server

Data engineering

SQLAlchemy

Azure

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Snowflake

SQLAlchemy

CI/CD

Job description

Confluence is seeking a Software Engineer with a data‑engineering focus to join the Data Team in Cape Town. You will help migrate legacy data logic to Python, build a robust data API, and work across SQL Server, Snowflake, and SQLAlchemy in a multi‑tenant platform.

This backend role emphasizes data correctness, performance, and integration of diverse data sources, with Azure and DevOps capabilities to deploy and operate what you build.