Ready to revolutionize the way businesses grow and operate?
Join the iKTribe as a Senior Software Engineer, where you'll lead the development of our central dashboard, a vital tool for merchants to manage and expand their businesses through innovative technological solutions.
So, what will you do?
- You will be a part of building new technologies, maintaining existing technologies as well as testing various systems within the FinTech space.
- You will also be working in an Agile environment within a collaborative cross-functional Team, reporting into the Software Development Manager.
- You will be developing crispy new user-facing features that drive our users to take action using React.js, HTML5 and CSS.
- You will be responsible for the end-to-end development including: initial planning, development, writing test cases, creating the deployment pipeline and deploying to our cloud hosting provider.
- You will exhibit excellent communication and team player skills.
In addition to the above, you will:
- Ensuring that code developed is of the highest standards through the adherence to Engineering Principles, Pull Request Standards and Definitions of Done.
- Ensuring that development has sufficient Code coverage through the creation of Unit test.
- Ensuring that code adheres to “Clean as you code standard“.
- Creating, reading, maintaining, interpreting, updating and reviewing documentation.
- Helping other engineers to grow through effective mentorship.
- Ensuring that the team and stakeholders are communicated too effective and efficiently through Pull Requests, Jira Tickets, Slack and Confluence.
- Imparting valuable knowledge to the engineering team at large through knowledge sharing sessions.
The following would be advantageous:
Deal Breakers:
6+ years’ experience in the following:
- Working within an Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methods.
- Version Control experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) with a version control system such as GitHub.
- Development Environments experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Teams (with developers of various levels) within multiple environments for Development, Testing and Production; including Branching Strategies.
- Experience with Technical Leadership whereby you have led a Software Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) and been involved in Technical Leadership, Code Quality, Code Standards, Code Security, System and Code Performance.
- Experience with creating, maintaining and reviewing documentation.
- Experience with leading and participating in Code Reviews for your own team as well as those in other teams.
- Designing and implementing various architectural layers: for example presentation, application, service, integration and database layers.
- Willingness to mentor, support and guide developers at various levels.
In addition to the above, the experience in the following technologies, domains and best practices will make you a frontrunner for the role:
- ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and Node.js
- Rest API Integration
- CMS API Integration (Sanity, Magento, or similar)
- Telemetry Integration (Datadog, or similar)
- Unit Testing frameworks (Jest, or similar)
- AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, AWS EC2
- Microservices
- Design Patterns
- Solid Principles and Object Oriented Programming Concepts
- Linux (Docker, Kubernetes)
- VSCode / IntelliJ
Perks of joining the Tribe
- Work in a high-growth company with tangible results you're accountable for.
- Enjoy hybrid, remote, and in office work models.
- Competitive remuneration and benefits, including Medical Aid and Group Risk scheme contributions.
- Be guided by visionary leadership.
- Seize the opportunity for study leave.
- Access to on-demand learning and development.
- Experience a friendly, collaborative culture with a team of all-round-lekker humans (it’s true, we surveyed our Employees and they told us so).
- If you find yourself at HQ, coffee on tap and a selection of hot beverages provided by our very own onsite Barista.
