Full Stack Developer

Online Education Services; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online education company is seeking an AI Developer in Cape Town to support and enhance AI-powered applications. This role combines teamwork with technical expertise in developing APIs and deploying solutions on cloud platforms like AWS. Ideal candidates should hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields and have a minimum of 4 years' experience. The position is hybrid, allowing flexibility while maintaining a strong focus on team collaboration and technical excellence.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Medical allowance

Commute allowance

Flexible work

Generous annual leave

Professional development and mentoring

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in relevant field.
• Effective problem-solving abilities.
• Meticulous attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to develop AI applications.
• Design, build, and deploy AI solutions.
• Develop APIs and integrate AI into applications.
• Maintain and optimize solution performance.

Skills

NodeJS back ends

Javascript front end frameworks (React, Svelte)

HTML5

CSS

REST API development

Websockets

Unit testing

Git source control best practices

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS services (S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, etc.)

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, CodeDeploy, etc.)

Job description

Location: Cape Town

Working Practices: Hybrid | Mondays and Thursday in office and remaining days remote

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 07H00 - 15H30 SAST

Reports to: Manager– Data, Cloud and AI Engineering

Job Summary

The AI Developer is responsible for supporting the development, maintenance, scaling, and improvement of AI-powered applications. This role involves close collaboration with senior engineers to support the deployment of AI solutions on AWS and Azure, manage API integrations, and assist in the development of new AI Proof of Concepts. The AI Developer will also aid in the documentation of processes and configurations, ensuring efficient operations within our AI platform environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate within a wider cross-region development team of engineers
• Design, build, and deploy AI and enabling workloads and bespoke AI applications within the OES delivery portfolio
• Develop APIs and microservices to integrate AI into applications.
• Assist in maintaining and optimizing solution performance and scalability
• Contribute to AI research and development within OES
• Develop proof of concepts or prototypes to assist with research
• Ensure technical implementation deliverables meet best industry standards
• Contribute to the evolution and adoption of AI engineering technology within OES
• Maintain and contribute to documentation of AI engineering space
• Assist with the setup, deploy and maintenance of AI application and services for OES partners domestically and internationally

What does success look like?

• Successful and timely delivery of applications and solutions for OES AI stream and our partners to achieve business and financial goals
• Focus on student experience when designing and implementing solutions
• Supporting a long-term perspective on technology solutions to ensure it is scalable
• Security first mindset with solution design and implementation
• Developing strong and trusting relationships with the geographically distributed team and management structure of the OES group
• Contributing to the evolution of the application development capability in the AI stream and solutions within OES and assisting on achieving its KPIs

Qualifications

• You should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and minimum 4 years’ experience

Demonstrable commercial experience in the following technologies:

• NodeJS back ends.
• Javascript front end frameworks and libraries (React, Svelte or similar)
• HTML5, CSS, Native Javascript
• REST API development and consumption
• Websockets
• Unit testing

Demonstrable commercial experience in concepts such as:

• Git source control best practices
• System design and thinking
• Authentication and Web security
• Database best practices
• DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD (Jenkins, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions or similar)

Demonstrable commercial experience in Cloud services (preferably AWS)

• S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Cloudwatch
• Serverless paradigms and technologies

• Effective problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Python
• Exposure to AI concepts and such as LLMs and RAG
• Education industry technology standards such as LTI
• AWS certification

About OES

OES is a vibrant and values-led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student-focused, innovative, and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education. We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day.

Company Culture & Values

We are a people-focused organization with a culture built around collaboration, connection, and working together toward one common goal. Our vibrant, values-led culture is grounded in four core principles that guide everything we do:

Passion and Perseverance: We love what we do (even though it’s not always easy) and take pride in creating transformative learning experiences. We bring a ‘can-do’ attitude to our work, tackling challenges and inspiring others.

Teamwork: We operate as cross-functional teams globally with trust and respect, celebrating success. We have fun while we work and enjoy collaborating with each other and OES partners.

Agility and Innovation: We are innovative, lateral thinkers who use our skills to do things better for our students. We thrive in ambiguity, embrace change and challenge conventional thinking.

Integrity: We do what’s right, and what we say we will do, every time. We value a culture of respectful feedback and believe that respect trumps harmony.

These are some of the perks you can expect when you join the team:

• Develop: In an agile environment within a high performing close-knit team with modern hardware directly on cloud services using modern cloud technologies
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical allowance
• Commute allowance
• Flexible work for genuine career-life fit
• A healthy and supportive company culture
• Generous annual leave
• Paid maternity and paternity benefits
• Study leave
• Professional development and mentoring
• Construct Culture Club events
• Company funded lunch and drinks every 8 weeks

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