Intermediate Software Engineer - Cape Town / Hybrid - R760k PA

E-Merge IT Recruitment; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 646,000 - 760,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital product consultancy in Cape Town is seeking talented engineers for a full-time contract position. You will work collaboratively in a cross-functional team, employing modern development practices to deliver high-quality software. The role requires skills in frontend and backend technologies, source-control, and test automation. A competitive salary package is offered.

Responsibilities

• Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team of designers, engineers & testers.
• Employing modern development practices to ship high-quality software.
• Coaching & supporting peers and providing support to a live product.

Skills

Frontend web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML)

Backend technologies (e.g. Java, Go, Rust)

Effective source-control management using Git

Test automation and Test Driven Development practices

Working with lean and agile practices

Collaborating in cross-functional teams

Education

Experience with listed areas and technologies

Tools

Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes)

CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions)

Cloud-based architectures (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)

Data storage layer technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL)

Job description

Overview

We are a digital product consultancy made up of smart kind humans who design build and ship awesome things. We partner with big names looking at you to help them move faster think smaller and act bolder.

Were not into buzzwords or bloated teams. We keep it lean clean and user-obsessed with just enough chaos to keep things spicy

Currently in search for talented engineers who are passionate about delivering high-quality work in an environment that values growth autonomy and purpose!

Responsibilities

• Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team of designers engineers & testers
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Begin to coach & support peers Provide support to a live product (based on clients needs)

Required experience / Skills

• Frontend web technologies (e.g. JavaScript Typescript CSS HTML etc.)
• Backend technologies (e.g. Java Go Rust etc.)
• Effective source-control management using Git
• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing API testing and end-to-end testing
• Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban Scrum etc.)
• Collaborating in cross-functional teams

Nice to have

• Work with virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs Docker Kubernetes)
• Build maintain and debug CI / CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins CircleCI Github Actions)
• Make use of modern UI data layer technologies (e.g. Relay GraphQL Apollo)
• Understand debug and help contribute to evolving cloud-based architectures (e.g. AWS GCP Azure)
• Work with and debug data storage layer technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch Redis PostgreSQL)
• Support a live system respond to alerts diagnose problems using logs and observability tooling triage and resolve incidents

Education / Qualifications

• Experience with and/or willingness to grow in the listed areas and technologies

Reference

Reference Number for this position is GZ60465 which is a contract position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R760k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Key Skills

Business,Baan,Communication,Corporate Advisory,HSSE

Employment Type

Note: Full-Time

Experience

years

Vacancy

1