Our Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Technology Domain Specialist to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.
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.
Requirements
- 4+ 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
Qualifications
- B-Degree in Software Engineering
- 7 years experience required
- Experience using Node.js tools, backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
- Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest) and CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
- Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc) and Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
- Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
- Experience with Datadog, AWS services and using Terrafrom, Debt Manager V11.3 mainframe, Debt Manager v702, FTP, Cobol, JCL, Cloud Azure
- Banking and exposure to agile delivery scrum, kanban and SAFe
- Data Warehousing and information technology Architecture
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