Backend Developer Full Time Permanent

Backend Developer – Johannesburg

A Backend Developer job vacancy is currently available in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

What’s better than writing code that reaches millions of concurrent users globally? Doing it with millions more in mind. We are looking for Backend Engineers who are passionate about building a modern, scalable and resilient platform and want to contribute to our mission of pushing the boundaries.

We give you autonomy over the software you build and offer you the freedom to choose the right tool for the job. In return, we expect you to take (e2e) ownership of the systems you build, and that means:

• You’re responsible for the operational health of your services
• You’re empowered and encouraged to fix operational issues (i.e. there will be space for improvement work and bug fixes in the sprints)

We are using a microservices architecture and everything is hosted in AWS. We use a combination of both containers as well as serverless, and many managed AWS services including DynamoDB, API Gateway, ECS, Lambda and much more.

Our teams mainly use NodeJS to build our backend systems, therefore, experience with JavaScript would be great! However, we hire tech agnostically as we believe in hiring problem solvers! If you can contribute to our engineering challenge then we would be happy to teach you the tools necessary to be successful with us.

Salary:

• Based on skills and experience

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of Node.js and its core principles
• Solid understanding of GraphQL
• Experience with AWS Technologies
  • API Gateway
  • ECS
  • DynamoDB
  • Lambda
  • CloudWatch
  • Fargate
  • Terraform
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools {{such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial}}

As our new Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Build and maintain scalable microservices
• Collaborate with Product Managers, and other Software Engineers to deliver a compelling user experience
• Deliver maintainable, robust and testable code
• Share knowledge and collaborate with other developers across the business
• Build highly resilient and scalable solution on cloud, impacting millions of users

You’ll be set up for success if you have:

• Experience in building cloud-hosted services
• Experience with DevOps
• Ability to effectively communicate technical ideas to others
• Ability to write tests
• Track record of successful software delivery through all phases of development, code reviews, testing, and operations

Even better if you have:

• Experience with Node.js
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with infrastructure and deployment automation
• Experience with Payment systems
• Experience with Authentication and user management
• Worked on large scale web applications
• Leverages and contributes to open source

NOTE: You don’t need to be an expert in all those technologies, but a willingness to learn and basic knowledge in some would be a benefit.

Personality:

• Adaptable, Goal-oriented, Intuitive, Self-confident, Team Player

Success Criteria:

• To be successful in this position, you should have a good understanding of vanilla JavaScript and have experience with unit tests.
• You have demonstrated the ability to use common industry tools for software development including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools.
• You are able to take documented designs prepared by more experienced engineers and contribute code to implement the design working solo or with other engineers together.
• You are able to provide technical documentation describing your contributions and contribute enhancements to your team’s best practices.

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