Senior Software Engineer - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 18-11-2015 4:00:24 PM
16-12-2015 4:00:24 PM

Senior Software engineer  - R60-R75k

A rapidly growing Fintech company that is disrupting the finance industry throughout Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Zambia) is looking for talented Software Engineers who are passionate about their work. They've recently secured $45m in a 2nd round of funding. They are rebuilding their platform for scale using a micro service architecture.

You'll mainly work with Java, Scala, and a little bit of Ruby on Rails. They are looking for Software Engineers that can code in any language (Java, Scala, Python, Golang, C++). 

This is a great opportunity for those that want to make a difference and create cool software applications that revolutionize consumer finance, disrupt banking and the financial industry. 

Do you possess the following skills:

  • Experience coding in multiple languages  Java, Scala, Ruby, Python
  • Traditional SQL and NoSql databases like MongoDB etc 
  • In depth knowledge of Internet technologies and protocols (e.g. Web Servers, HTTP, Javascript, e.t.c)
  • A solid grounding in Rails would be useful OR any other web framework 
  • Experience architecting and implementing server side technologies (queues, caches, threads, persistence models)
  • Practical experience with cloud technologies - specifically AWS, Heroku or Engine Yard.
  • Experience with high throughput, high availability 24/7 software
  • Strong Linux skills
  • Proven history of delivering excellent and innovative software
  • A passion for Open Source technologies, both as a user and participant in projects

 


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