Software Development Director - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 15-03-2021 2:33:43 PM
22-04-2021 10:00:04 AM
Our client in the skincare industry is looking for a Software Development Director who is keen to join a small systems development team of senior software engineers, as well as Devops, QA and BI leads.

Your role will be to lead the continuing build of our web-based ERP and manufacturing platform and websites and to provide overall technical leadership for the build-out of these systems

It’s an opportunity to work with a hand-picked team of smart, creative people who, with the benefit of time and space, can create the best possible solutions - in a dynamic and collaborative environment. You will work closely with business stakeholders and the relevant technical team lead in order to work on several different systems and processes that make our business run.

These systems include: manufacturing execution systems (integrated with SCADA platforms), an intranet to manage our global distribution network (ordering, invoicing), a logistics system to manage deliveries globally via sea and air as well as a translation and artwork system to handle translating packaging artwork in 47 languages.

You will also be responsible for managing an out-sourced team that builds our mobile app which is used as our primary communication platform for our global distribution network. Our stack includes Ruby-on-Rails, AWS (including serverless technologies), and CI pipelines for everything.

Successful candidates must have a relevant degree, 10 years of software development experience working with a broad range of software technologies, and a talent for solving complex problems with simple solutions.