Hybrid Senior Python Developer (Remote) Senior Python Developer (Remote)
Datafin Recruitment · nan, · Hybrid
About the job
Senior Python Developer (Remote) IT - Software Development
Cape Town - Western Cape ~ Johannesburg - Gauteng ~ Durban - KwaZulu Natal ~ Remote
ENVIRONMENT:
Hey there! A top online retailer in South Africa is on the hunt for a Senior Python Software Engineer to join their team. In this role, you'll be diving into the design, implementation, support, and maintenance of scalable services across various platforms. You'll have a say in both business and tech decisions, working on full-stack solutions from start to finish. If you've got a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or something similar, and at least 5 years of software development under your belt, they want to hear from you!
DUTIES:
Skills needed:
Cape Town - Western Cape ~ Johannesburg - Gauteng ~ Durban - KwaZulu Natal ~ Remote
ENVIRONMENT:
Hey there! A top online retailer in South Africa is on the hunt for a Senior Python Software Engineer to join their team. In this role, you'll be diving into the design, implementation, support, and maintenance of scalable services across various platforms. You'll have a say in both business and tech decisions, working on full-stack solutions from start to finish. If you've got a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or something similar, and at least 5 years of software development under your belt, they want to hear from you!
DUTIES:
- Build scalable software systems supporting their growing business and customers.
- Work closely with other engineers, professional services teams, and product managers.
- Participate/lead architecture proposals for your division's domain
- Develop high-quality production code for work of high complexity and scale
- Champion, challenge, and iterate on best practices within engineering
- Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision trade-offs, typically system- or domain-wide
- Analyse and understand business requirements and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and produce technical specifications that meet these requirements
- Assist the product teams in helping to determine priorities for technical projects
- Support, challenge existing, and define new engineering processes and directives
- Lead interviews and assess potential engineering candidates for skills and fit
- Mentor, coach, and share knowledge with your peers through blog posts, tech talks, and workshops across engineering
- Add value to the team and business.
- Continuously learn and improve your knowledge and the deliverables.
Skills needed:
- Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
- Ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs.
- Experience in developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures.
- Hands-on experience with *nix and Python.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, relational & non-relational datastores, containerization, and cloud service providers.
- AWS Cloud technologies.
- GIT version control.
- PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis.
- Kafka.
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field or related experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of Software Development experience is required.
- If you do not have a Bachelors Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 7 years of Software Development experience.
- Passion for learning new skills and appreciation for inventing and simplifying
