Xneelo is looking for senior full-stack developers to spearhead the development of our brand-new product: xneelo Cloud.Xneelo Cloud is a versatile, Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud product offering scalable compute, storage, and network resources.
This product is currently in beta, and is getting ready for full market release in the near future.This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is launching a new flagship Cloud product for xneelo.
Our initial launch is focused on the South African market, and rapidly building on the Cloud features to add ongoing value to our customers.
Once this is achieved, we plan to expand to the global market.The Cloud product team is a close-knit, engaged, and productive group that is passionate about Cloud.
As a developer in the team you'll be responsible for building the tools, services and dashboards that our customers use to create their own virtualised environments.You'll work closely with the infrastructure team, building on top of the underlying compute and storage infrastructure, powered by OpenStack and Ceph.
Python is primarily used to build and customise our open-source dashboard.
The Cloud team is also pioneering Go as the team's primary language, whereas Ruby on Rails is more widely used within xneelo.
Other items in our tech stack toolbox are Typescript, React, k8s, Redis, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Gitlab to name a few.The experience and approach we're looking forSenior full-stack Web application developerStrong API and database design and implementation skillsSelf-motivated, engaged, and committed team playerDevOps and SRE thinking, secure coding, and overall end-to-end system ownershipValues working in a self-organizing team environment and subscribes to leadership through ability and knowledge, not titleStrive to grow your own and others' software craftsmanshipLargely aligns with the Agile manifesto and its underlying principlesInterest and investment in building a new Cloud productBonus PointsPrevious Cloud experience React, Django, and AngularJS experienceDomain Driven Design experienceRuby, Go, Typescript, or Python experienceSince the primary language used in the team is Go, experience with this tech stack will be highly beneficialGiven the product domain, any Linux or cloud platform system administration or advanced user experienceKubernetes and Gitlab experienceWe are looking for talented engineers to join us and help get this team and product up and running and the salary will be negotiable, commensurate with your skills and track record.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Overall dispositionThe ideal candidate will have a passion for:Using technology to serve client requirementsProgramming, open-source technologies, and IT in generalDeveloping Quality, Secure Optimal systems and simple proceduresAgile development and a self-organising team environmentSharing ideas and innovationOngoing learning and improvementA high level of proficiency in the followingUtilizing Cloud Services such as AWS, Azure or GCP to build software solutionsDatabase design and performance tuning (MySQL or similar)Software development within the Linux/Unix environmentAgile development practices (TDD, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming)Microservice principles and developmentUnderstanding of and development using ContainersA DevOps background would be beneficialLinux systems administration skills will be an advantageExperience working with GoResponsibilitiesDesign & development of backend software and APIsObject-oriented programming using a language like RubyDesign & development of frontend components using ReactSoftware development within the Linux/Unix environmentAgile development practices (team focus, continual improvement, automated tests, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming)Effective communicationSelf-motivation and self-managementQualificationsBSc or BTech majoring in Computer Science will be advantageous, however, your ability to demonstrate your in-depth understanding of the web technologies and sound software engineering practices will trump a formal qualification.
A minimum of 5+ years of software development experience.
Minimum of 2 years supporting a large-scale application in an operational capacity.