Software Developer

WENZ; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

WENZ in Cape Town is seeking a Software Developer to help build out our microservices architecture and backend APIs that power our retail communications platform. You will work with product owners, analysts, and senior developers to deliver high-performance enterprise-grade software.

The role involves designing features, writing robust code, unit and integration tests, and improving system performance using RESTful services in Go/Scala/Java/C++.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional development experience.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms is a must.
• Strong software design skills and ability to work across multiple languages.
• Proficiency in Go, Scala, Java or C++ is beneficial.
• Experience with SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle is desired.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and design new features.
• Write robust, maintainable code and tests.
• Write unit, integration, and acceptance tests for components.
• Ensure build automation scripts are in place.
• Improve performance of existing systems.
• Mentor other developers and deliver features on time.
• Drive innovation in the tech stack and collaborate with stakeholders.

Skills

OOP fundamentals

Data structures & algorithms

Multi-language proficiency

Software design

REST/Distributed systems

Tools

Go

Scala

Java

C++

SQL

Job description

Software Developer / Reatail IT

Details of position

Overview

We are looking for talented developers who are willing to help us in building out our microservices architecture in developing complex and integrated backend APIs that solve vital problems and provide cutting-edge features to the business.

This opportunity will allow you to form part of the Client Communication Team which builds and maintains a communications capability that enables targeted and relevant communications to be sent to our retail clients.

We are constantly looking for better ways of doing things, so if you can bring a willingness and excitement to find innovative solutions in a performance-driven environment that will allow you to play with the latest and great technologies, then we may just be perfect for you.

As a key member of our team, you will work alongside the product owner, business analysts, senior developers, and testers in order to deliver high performance enterprise grade applications.

We have adopted a Microservices architecture with RESTful API’s written in Go as well as Scala. Our Microservices are built and deployed on an elastic containerized infrastructure supported and managed on premises with cloud (AWS) through Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and design new features
• Write elegant robust code.
• Write unit, integration, and acceptance tests for all components.
• Ensure that build automation scripts are written.
• Improve and optimize the performance of existing systems.
• Troubleshoot and root-cause errors.Mentor other developers.
• Deliver features timeously.
• Drive innovation and improvement in our tech stack.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver technical solutions.

Requirements

Nice to haves

• At least 5 years’ worth of professional development experience
• Since we are a multi-technology environment, knowledge of computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms are a necessity.
• Strong software design skills
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language. It is beneficial if you have experience in one statically typed language such as Go, Scala, Java, or C++.
• Proficiency in a database technology such as SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
• Experience in distributed computing and building enterprise-wide systems.Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing.
• Must be willing and able to live in Cape Town, as this role is based in the Cape Town office.

• Development using a .NET language such as C#.
• Development using Scala.
• Devel