Intermediate Software Engineer

We are a digital product consultancy made up of smart, kind humans who design, build, and ship awesome things. We partner with big names looking at you, to help them move faster, think smaller, and act bolder.

We’re not into buzzwords or bloated teams. We keep it lean, clean, and user-obsessed with just enough chaos to keep things spicy

Currently in search for talented engineers who are passionate about delivering high-quality work in an environment that values growth, autonomy, and purpose!

It’d be great if you have experience with:

• Front-end web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)
• Back-end technologies (e.g. Node.js, Java, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Effective source-control management using Git
• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing
• Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• Collaborating in cross-functional teams

It’d be amazing if you can also:

• Work with virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes
• Build, maintain and debug CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions
• Make use of modern UI data layer technologies (e.g. Relay, GraphQL, Apollo,
• Understand, debug and help contribute to evolving cloud-based architectures (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure,)
• Work with and debug data storage layer technologies (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL)
• Support a live system, respond to alerts, diagnose problems using logs and observability tooling, triage and resolve incidents

Responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team of designers, engineers & testers
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software ○ Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Begin to coach & support peers ○ Provide support to a live product (based on client’s needs)

Reference number for this position is GZ60465 which is a contract position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R760k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Are you ready for a change of scenery? The E-Merge IT recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions.

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Posted on 12 Aug 10:29, Closing date 11 Oct