Software Engineer

About the role:

The role is new and comes from growth in our client base. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. You can work from home anywhere in South Africa. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Day to day:

• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Preferred:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Contributions to open source projects

What we offer:

R60,000-R72,000 per month

• Medical aid contribution
• Provident fund
• Study assistance
• Data allowance

About us:

Started by a former school district network admin in 2007, the business has grown almost entirely through referrals. Our bench is in the back of a strip-mall storefront, where we image laptops and swap failed drives. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Doveforge Computer Services.