Python Developer Contract Full Time Remote

About us

PBT Group is a professional services provider to large national and international clients, and one that is focused on transforming data into a tangible asset. PBT Group provides an end-to-end data services and solutions offering, including Data Strategy, Data Engineering, Data Visualisation, Data Analytics, as well as Application Development.

PBT Group has worked in more than 27 countries around the world and has implemented large-scale data projects throughout Africa, the Middle East, Australia and Europe in the banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications and retail sectors.

With a staff complement of more than 750 highly skilled professional consultants, PBT Group has a reputation for delivery according to expectations. Worldwide expertise and local wisdom – that’s what makes us different!

• Job Description
  Responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining in-house and client facing systems
• Writing effective, scalable code
• Developing back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrating user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Design and implement of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Integration of data storage solutions
• Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation
• Work collaboratively with design team to understand end user requirements to provide technical solutions and for the implementation of new software features
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments

About you

• Relevant IT Degree (BTech ( IT), BSC or BComm) or Diploma
• 2+ years Programming Experience
• Proficient in Python Development
• SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Expertise in Python frameworks like Django, Jinja and Flask
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

Tagged as: JavaScript, Python, SQL