Python Software Engineer (CH522)

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Ref no: CH522

Our client, an online retailer is looking for highly talented Software Development Engineers to join their team in Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg. They are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people to join them. They offer market related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

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You''ll have the choice of one of the many exciting development teams. The teams predominantly use Python, and their tech stacks differ depending on their involvement within our supply chain.

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and build solutions to assist our business users, and improve customer experience
• Architect and design solutions with your team
• Keep up to date with technology trends, both locally and internationally
• Apply creative thought processes to solve complex challenges at scale
• Strong focus on making the company the best place to shop at, a happy customer is a repeat customer
• Drive for excellence, to help foster a world-class engineering team

Skills, Qualification and Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree, with a major in Computer Science or similar (your experience can override this requirement)
• Minimum of two years’ experience in a software engineering role
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms

Attributes required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
• Solid quantitative skills
• Ability to interview and interact professionally with internal and external people
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

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Our tech stack (the highlights)

• Python, JavaScript, React, jQuery, PHP
• MySQL, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• nginx, RabbitMQ, Memcached
• Docker, Kubernetes, Chef
• GitHub, Travis CI, Jenkins
• Amazon EC2, Amazon S3

We seek Exceptional Minds, people who are:

• Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute;
• Analytical, able to use data to make decisions.
• Competitive.
• Curious. Always questioning the status quo;
• Not averse to risk;
• Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• Self-directed, taking action based on own initiative;
• Collaborative.
• Thorough;
• User focused, always trying to understand a product from the user’s perspective;
• Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular.

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The Environment:

• Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of the company being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

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