Product Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Product Engineer to contribute across Sales, Marketing, and Operations, designing software systems for B2B SaaS environments using Java or C#. You will collaborate with engineers to develop new products and improve customer experience through secure, efficient solutions.

The role requires five years in product engineering with web application development, backend design, and proficiency in Java or C#.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 5+ years in product engineering or equivalent.
• Strong background in web application development, back-end design, and APIs.
• Proficient in Java or C# and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop reference implementations to demonstrate security components.
• Automate security testing within build processes.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams on security integration.
• Assess and configure security tools to support testing activities.
• Document security patterns and guidelines for engineering teams.
• Engage in security architecture reviews and risk analysis.
• Support Security Champions program and training.

Skills

Security engineering

DevOps

CI/CD

Agile

Documentation

Data handling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Jenkins/Pipeline

Elasticsearch

Job description

The Product Engineer will be involved in a wide range of tasks and projects within the company. You'll work with all parts of the business, including Sales, Marketing and Operations to develop new products for our clients. You'll be responsible for designing software systems that deliver value to our customers through increased efficiency or improved customer experience. Your primary role is working with engineers on product development projects and other technologies used by B2B SaaS companies such as AWS, Jenkins/Pipeline, Elasticsearch etc., using either Java or C#.

Requirements

• Develop reference implementations to prove and demonstrate use of security components forproduct engineering teams.
• Develop components to automate security testing within build processes.
• Assist product engineering teams with the implementation of security components.
• Assess security tools and integrate tools where needed.
• Configure new and existing security tools to support security testing activities.
• Document security patterns relevant to product engineering teams.
• Document guidelines aligned to security standards.
• Consult with teams in security code reviews where needed.
• Develop skill in Thread Modelling and assist others with the process.
• Develop security training and guidance to internal development teams.
• Work across organizational structures where required to achieve the stated goals.
• Engage in learning and skills development focused on security, including achieving relevantcertifications and informal security skills development through Capture The Flag exercises.
• Assist with the organization of the Security Champions program.
• Understand the security environment within the bank that drives the requirements for security tools,security testing capabilities and policies and standards that apply to our engineering activities.
• Keep informed on what is going on in the organization e.g. coding standards, patterns & practices,
• ongoing organizational security initiatives, current incidents and risks.
• Triage and handle security issues.
• Participate in security architecture reviews.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related eld required
• Five years of experience in a Product Engineer position with a strong background in web application
• development, back-end development and design.
• Preferably proficient in either Java or C#

Experience with

• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Agile
• Understanding of Security platform (preferable)
• Data oriented, will be dealing with reams of data