Software Engineer: Back-End II

Boardroom Appointments; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Software Engineer: Back-End II in Stellenbosch, South Africa. You will design software solutions, collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable backend systems, and deliver robust, secure code for high-availability applications.

The role requires 3+ years in back-end development, solid knowledge of SDLC, APIs, and databases, and hands-on experience with cloud platforms and microservices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years proven experience in back-end software development, project delivery and implementation (in relevant development technologies/language).
• Experience with back-end frameworks and technologies

Responsibilities

• Designing software solutions
• Works closely with stakeholders and cross functional team to translate business and technical requirements into solutions that meet client / business needs
• Produces solutions to complex business needs.
• Creates well designed solutions that balance client value with security, operations, resilience, performance and cost.
• Software development and systems integration
• Work with other software engineers and architects in developing components based on needs that support application functionality.
• Optimise systems for maximum performance and scalability to handle increasing user loads.
• Develop reusable code, APIs and libraries for future use.
• Share impact of code changes with product team.
• Database management and application logic
• Implement and optimise database models and queries for efficient data storage and retrieval. Write business logic and algorithms to handle complex data processing and application workflows.
• Quality and testing
• Implement and improve the organisation's prescribed development frameworks, patterns, and practices, with a particular focus on automated testing and CICD.
• Perform testing with a strong preference towards developing automated testing scripts and procedures to ensure code robustness and reliability.
• Practices secure coding practices (devsecops)
• Operational Excellence
• Conduct investigations through troubleshooting and debugging to fix minor, major and escalated bugs, promoting system stability.
• Perform first and/or second level standby across environments for integration between internal systems and applications, as well as that of external service providers.
• React to system monitoring and alerting events in a timely manner.
• Assist capacity planning on infrastructure requirements, as well as stability and load tests to improve system performance and throughput.
• Maintains, modifies and upgrades existing solutions, recommending and implementing improved methods.
• Learning and continuous improvement
• Expected to develop and maintain proficiency in modern programming paradigms, patterns and practices and apply or improve what is used by their delivery team. (This will differ per delivery team).
• Software Engineer Level II forms part of a structured career progression model where the incumbent will be exposed to meaningful projects in order to develop their level of autonomy, decision making and problem-solving skills

Skills

Back-end development

RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms

Microservices design

Education

Matric

Tertiary qualification in IT (ideal)

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About the job Software Engineer: Back-End II

• Matric
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology (ideal)

Experience:

• 3+ years proven experience in back-end software development, project delivery and implementation (in relevant development technologies/language).
• Experience with back-end frameworks and technologies

Knowledge:

• Is able to apply advanced knowledge of the following: IT systems development processes (SDLC)
• Advanced programming concepts
• Advanced algorithms and data structures Design Patterns
• Version Control Testing practices
• Database systems and query optimization (e.g., SQL, NoSQL).
• RESTful API design and integration.
• Cloud computing platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Advanced Microservice and event driven architectures
• Deployment using kubernetes and containerisation

Responsibilities:

• Designing software solutions
• Works closely with stakeholders and cross functional team to translate business and technical requirements into solutions that meet client / business needs
• Produces solutions to complex business needs.
• Creates well designed solutions that balance client value with security, operations, resilience, performance and cost.
• Software development and systems integration
• Work with other software engineers and architects in developing components based on needs that support application functionality.
• Optimise systems for maximum performance and scalability to handle increasing user loads.
• Develop reusable code, APIs and libraries for future use.
• Share impact of code changes with product team.
• Database management and application logic
• Implement and optimise database models and queries for efficient data storage and retrieval. Write business logic and algorithms to handle complex data processing and application workflows.
• Quality and testing
• Implement and improve the organisation's prescribed development frameworks, patterns, and practices, with a particular focus on automated testing and CICD.
• Perform testing with a strong preference towards developing automated testing scripts and procedures to ensure code robustness and reliability.
• Practices secure coding practices (devsecops)
• Operational Excellence
• Conduct investigations through troubleshooting and debugging to fix minor, major and escalated bugs, promoting system stability.
• Perform first and/or second level standby across environments for integration between internal systems and applications, as well as that of external service providers.
• React to system monitoring and alerting events in a timely manner.
• Assist capacity planning on infrastructure requirements, as well as stability and load tests to improve system performance and throughput.
• Maintains, modifies and upgrades existing solutions, recommending and implementing improved methods.
• Learning and continuous improvement
• Expected to develop and maintain proficiency in modern programming paradigms, patterns and practices and apply or improve what is used by their delivery team. (This will differ per delivery team).
• Software Engineer Level II forms part of a structured career progression model where the incumbent will be exposed to meaningful projects in order to develop their level of autonomy, decision making and problem-solving skills