Backend Team Lead

 

Recruiter:

The Skills Mine

Job Ref:

3573226151

Date posted:

Monday, April 11, 2022

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa


JOB SUMMARY:
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JOB DESCRIPTION:

Backend Team Lead Requirements:

  • 8+ years software engineering experience.
  • Experience using technologies like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages -
    Python, Java, Typescript.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in a lead software engineering role.
  • College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • A real passion for quality, clean code and continuous improvement

Core Competency Requirements

  • Knowledge of design principles and patterns.
  • Extensive experience with architectural infrastructure components including database systems,
    message queuing, caching, networking and security concepts.
  • Broad familiarity with wider languages, frameworks and approaches used in delivery of high quality software, including a strong understanding of architectural concepts and cloud-based solution design.
  • Experience with AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, Cloudwatch, Kinesis, DocumentDB, DynamoDB).
  • Experience with technologies such as Git, Kubernetes, Docker and Kafka.
  • Experience with systems integration and RESTful APIs, including API design. 

Preferred Competency Requirements

  • Instant messaging experience.
  • Payments industry experience.
  • Experience with Java, Python, Typescript applications.
  • Experience integrating with operational tooling such Datadog and Prometheus.
  • Experience with microservices and event driven systems

 

 

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