Software Engineer (.NET)

dotdigital; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company based in Cape Town is seeking a Software Engineer to join their remote team. You'll engage in building new functionality and scaling the platform, ensuring high performance and data management. Ideal candidates will have strong C# skills and experience in web development, with a collaborative spirit. The position emphasizes flexibility and excellent communication.

Benefits

Parental leave

Medical benefits

Paid sick leave

Share reward

Annual Udemy training allowance

Qualifications

• Experience working in a software engineering team (git, PRs, scrum, agile).
• Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Building new functionality and scaling the platform.
• Working alongside Product Managers and QA Engineers.
• Shipping code to production in your first sprint.

Skills

Solid C# .NET skills

Experience with web development using Typescript/ES6

SQL experience

Job description

About Us

The Company: Dotdigital is a thriving global community of passionate, dedicated professionals, committed to the collective success of the organization and its clients. Our core principles of innovation, teamwork, and client-focused solutions drive us to approach challenges with a growth mindset and take ownership of our work. At Dotdigital, collaboration and curiosity pave the way for meaningful connections and learning opportunities with diverse peers. Our work environment encourages knowledge sharing, fosters exploration, and cherishes creative ideas. Combined, these guide us towards a shared vision in which brands around the world exceed customer expectations through the adoption of responsible marketing practices.

The Product: Dotdigital is an all-in-one customer experience and data platform (CXDP) that empowers marketing teams to exceed customer expectations with highly personalized cross-channel journeys. With Dotdigital, marketers can seamlessly unify, enrich, and segment customer data. Breaking down data silos, Dotdigital streamlines decision-making and paves the way for marketing creativity that delivers customer engagement at scale. With powerful AI capabilities, Dotdigital makes it easy to automate deeply personalized experiences across web, email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, push, social, ads, and more.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer you will be working in one of our scrum teams, building new functionality, as well as scaling our platform to deal with our ever increasing customer and data volumes. You’ll work alongside Product Managers, QA Engineers, and many other talented people. We ship regularly, with automated deployments at the click of a button, and when you join us, we want you to ship code to production in your first sprint. We prioritise customer success; and we’re rigorous about security at every stage of the development lifecycle. Some of our problems are unique to large software – dealing with large datasets, maintaining very high throughput, and 24/7 platform uptime. We’re adopting AI tools in our SDLC where they make sense. Sometimes with huge success, and sometimes with resounding failure - but we’re excited about the future.

We use the leading cloud providers to power the Dotdigital platform and process hundreds of millions of pieces of data every day for some of the world’s largest companies, so there’s plenty to get your teeth into. For this role, we’re looking for someone who’s got strong and current C# skills, ideally with experience in web too. Managing large volumes of data is core to everything we do, so experience in working in high performance environments will be a huge plus.

About you:

These are the essential skills we need you to bring to us

• Solid C# .NET skills (we build with dotnet 8+, but have some 4.8 too)
• Experience with web development using Typescript/ES6, and ideally Angular
• SQL experience (you’ll most likely encounter SQL Server, and Google BigQuery; but there are other dialects across the business such as ClickHouse, MySQL, and others)
• Experience of working within a software engineering team (git, PRs, scrum, agile, etc) - ideally a remote-first team.

As with any large tech company, we have a lot of other things in our stack which you may encounter. The more experience you bring, the better; and of course, you’ll have an opportunity to learn when you get here.
As a remote team, we value excellent communicators - both spoken and written. The better you can share your ideas, the more impact you can make.

Why Us

Don’t just take our word for it - hear what your future colleagues have to say about working in our team:

"Working at Dotdigital is a fulfilling experience. The job's nature and flexibility, combined with strong ethics, create a fantastic work environment. The camaraderie within the team is outstanding, ensuring you're never working alone - truly a great company with great people." Unarine - Integrations Engineer

About the team

We’re remote! Our product and technical teams are currently based in the UK, Poland, and South Africa and our 180+ team members mostly work from home. We do make office and co-working spaces available, but that choice is entirely up to you. We’re very much in touch with each other via Slack and Zoom and have a great collaborative culture. To top up our social batteries, we meet up quarterly in person (we have a meetup per country) and work together for a day, have some food and drink, and have fun.

Tens of thousands of people use our software every day and we’re proud that they chose to use our platform, and we’re proud of what they achieve with it. Whether you’ve worked with something at this scale, and can bring your experience; or whether you’re keen to try the next step up in your career - come and join us.

Interview Process

• 15 minute screening call
• 90 minute technical interview
• 90 minute general interview

Some of Our Global Benefits

• Parental leave
• Medical benefits
• Paid sick leave
• Dotdigital day
• Share reward
• Wellbeing reward
• Wellbeing Days
• Loyalty reward
• Annual Udemy training allowance

DEI commitment

As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to equality in all its practices with regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. If you have any additional requirements or adjustments to assist an application then please don't hesitate to contact us and advise us how we can best support you.

Legal statement

No agencies/recruiters please. We are only accepting applications directly from the applicants. If you are a recruiter, please refrain from reaching out to our staff about this position. Anything contrary will be treated as unsolicited approach under the applicable data protection law.