Platform Engineer II – Microservices & Cloud Focus

Allan Gray Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

The Allan Gray Group's Institutional IT Platform Engineering team in Cape Town is seeking a Developer II to help build and maintain microservices with .NET Core and ReactJS frontends.

You will work autonomously on new solutions and support existing systems in a demanding business context, collaborating with a cross-functional team of developers, analysts, testers and IT operations to deliver high-quality software on schedule.

Qualifications

• Experience with full software development life cycle and coding standards.
• Knowledge of modern web / UI principles and backend/API integration.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical implementations.
• Experience collaborating with business users to understand requirements.

Responsibilities

• Interact with Developers and stakeholders to understand new requirements.
• Own and build common applications and libraries used by Developers and Institutional IT.
• Write technical specifications and develop new functionality to Allan Gray standards and deadlines.
• Participate in design and planning sessions.
• Understand existing systems and their role in the architecture and business goals.
• Analyse issues and debug in collaboration with team members.
• Test and deploy code changes.

Skills

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

RESTful APIs

.NET Core

ReactJS

WPF/WinForms

Education

Degree or diploma in analytical/quantitative field such as computer science or engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

AWS

Job description

The Allan Gray Group's Institutional IT Platform Engineering team in Cape Town is seeking a Developer II to help build and maintain microservices with .NET Core and ReactJS frontends.

You will work autonomously on new solutions and support existing systems in a demanding business context, collaborating with a cross-functional team of developers, analysts, testers and IT operations to deliver high-quality software on schedule.