About the job

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

Overview:

Skiffmill HQ is hiring a Software Engineer to work remotely from South Africa. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Remote within South Africa. The team meets in Johannesburg once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Main duties:

Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners

Qualifications:

3+ years of professional software development experience
Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Preferred:

Kubernetes and Docker in production
Prior work at an early-stage startup
Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

Salary: R64,000 - R74,000 pcm

What we offer:

Medical aid contribution
Provident fund
Data allowance
Group life cover
Study assistance

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Immediately.

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