Senior Software Engineer (Digisure)

Santam Insurance; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 800 000 - 1 100 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide guidance, deliver high-quality software, and promote a culture of continuous learning. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience and proficiency in languages like Python, Java, and C++. This role can be fully remote or on-site in Cape Town, offering opportunities to mentor junior staff and shape strategic technical goals.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Opportunities for mentorship

Continuous learning and development programs

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• Ability to articulate language differences and build processes.
• Experience with scalable architecture and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Guide and mentor junior team members.
• Deliver high-quality, scalable code.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in Java

Proficiency in C++

Understanding of data structures and algorithms

Experience with cloud technologies

Technical leadership and mentorship

Education

Degree or Diploma in Computer Sciences or IT

Tools

AWS

Auto Scaling

Containers

Job description

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Digisure)

Job Location

Western Cape, Bellville

Deadline

December 05,

What will you do?

The Senior Software Engineer position is a critical role, responsible for guidance of the wider team and delivering efficient software in a high trust, high-performance environment.

Comprising a diverse team of skilled, motivated and curious talent from both local and international locations, the role can be fully remote, hybrid or office based.

Our relatively flat organisational structure lends itself to open communication, agility and collaboration.

The role reports to a Technical Lead (who reports to the Chief Technology Officer).

Strategic delivery

Contribute to the team's technical trajectory, ensuring alignment with major technical decisions and contributing to shaping our strategic goals.

Mentorship and Leadership

Enable the professional growth of more junior team members, nurturing their development into exceptional professionals while leading by example in our high-trust, high-performance culture.

Code Excellence

Deliver high-quality code, upholding our commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.

Innovative Tech Stack

Utilize a modern, yet pragmatic Tech Stack to build a highly scalable distributed system, ensuring our technological capabilities remain relevant.

Continuous Learning

Promote a culture of continuous learning and innovation, demonstrating this personally – to ensuring we remain agile and responsive to business needs and market trends.

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification and Experience

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Sciences, IT
• 8+ Years of experience

Programming Languages & Coding

Despite our language agnostic approach, proficiency in languages used in full-stack / back-end Software Development (Python, Java, C++ etc for example) is required

Proficiency at reading, reviewing, understanding code

Ability to articulate language differences, implementation and the build & execution process: for example strongly vs weakly typed, static vs dynamic, compiled vs interpreted Data Structures, Algorithms & Algorithmic Problem Solving.

Ability to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution in the shortest possible time.

This includes situations in which a data structure would be applicable, and why.

Ability to suggest possible / relevant algorithms when developing and optimising solutions for time and space complexity.

This includes the ability to discuss options and trade-offs; also in instances where scope increases and solutions have to adapt.

Engineering & Operational Excellence

Understanding of scalability, robustness, operational visibility and agility.

Understanding of distributed systems and designing these solutions.

Experience working on projects involving the design and implementation of scalable systems.

Knowledge of services like AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS, etc) is preferred yet not a prerequisite.

All experience with relevant Cloud-based technologies are beneficial in this role.

Understanding of / experience in monitoring, metrics, visibility, health, fault tolerance.

Experience with / understanding of load balancing and health checking.

Experience with / understanding of APIs, auth.

Experience with / understanding of databases and persistence

Experience with / understanding of scalable architecture for systems implementation.

Technical Leadership

Experience / a keen interest in mentorship, teamwork and collaboration.

Additional Success Factors

Develop deeper technical expertise in specific domains while maintaining a broad understanding of related technologies.

Increase influence beyond immediate team boundaries.

Improve ability to balance technical trade-offs with business needs.

Enhance leadership skills through mentoring and leading small teams or projects.

Begin contributing to cross-team initiatives and architectural discussions.

Show increasing awareness of business context and how technical decisions impact business outcomes.

Develop skills in breaking down complex problems into manageable components.

Industries

ICT jobs