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Back-End Technical Specialist

πŸ’° $20,000 - $25,000 🌍 South Africa πŸ“… 07/05/2023

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Job Description

##### Job Description :

We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large-
scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of
performance, maintainability and availability. Be involved in all aspects of
development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and
deployment and drive improvements in the companys software delivery life cycle
to enable high quality continuous delivery process. The ideal candidate will
bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge
technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering
delivery. The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of
your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance
optimizations. The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the
business including the Backend Software Engineers, Product Management,
Infrastructure/DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap. They will
need to Seek constant feedback from different users and data to help the team
to prioritize and iterate on solutions. Be involved in mentoring less
experienced software engineers in the team

##### **Key Roles, Responsibilities and Skills/Competencies:**

* 10+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
* Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku
* Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes
* Required experience in REST API development
* Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework - .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS
* Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ
* Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker
* Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & DataDog
* Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
* Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems
* Experience working within an agile development environment
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team
* Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects
* This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required
* B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

##### **Nice-to-have Skills**

* Experience using Node.js tools
* Experience with backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
* Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest);
* Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker;
* Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc)
* Experience with Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
* Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
* Experience with Datadog
* Experience with AWS services
* Experience using Terrafrom