Software Engineer

Since 2020, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

The role

We need another Software Engineer who likes owning a feature from the design doc all the way to the on-call rotation. You can work from home anywhere in South Africa. We have no office requirement. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

Main duties

Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review. Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it. Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents. Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates. Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.

Minimum qualifications

2+ years of professional software development experience. Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript. Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests. BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

Preferred

Kubernetes and Docker in production. Prior work at an early-stage startup. Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

What we offer

Medical aid contribution. Provident fund. Group life cover. Data allowance.

Candidates must be eligible to work in South Africa.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Skiffmill HQ.