Software Developer - Backend (JB1677)

 

Recruiter:

HR Genie

Job Ref:

JB1677

Date posted:

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Market related


JOB SUMMARY:
To develop the educational systems of tomorrow

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Software Developer - Backend (JB1677)
Cape Town
Market Related

Hybrid - semi remote

Purpose
- To develop the educational systems of tomorrow

Experience
- Minimum 3 years experience as a software engineer
- An understanding of development best practices
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with cloud providers. Preferably AWS.
- A deep understanding of Microservices.
- DevOps experience and exposure to agile methodologies would be ideal

Day to Day
- Build distributed microservices and extend off the shelf applications
- Design, build and maintain advanced applications
- Flesh out designs and contribute to functional and non-functional requirements
- Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

Skills
- To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed
- A continuous improvement mindset
- Problem solving skills
- Decision making skills
- Experience with CMSs, LMSs and SISs would be ideal

Stack
- DotNet Core (C#), PHP
- AWS Services
- SNS, SQS
- RDS (MYSQL / PostgreSQL)
- ElastiCache (Redis)
- MSK (Kafka)
- ECS, EC2, Lambda
- Elastic Search
- MSSQL

#microservices #offtheshelf #cms #crm #lms #sis

 

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