Sanlam Fintech is a newly established digital first business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratise financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent. We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth. Our culture is that of agility and constant deployment, we believe in learning fast, learning cheap and learning forward. Our aim is to provide a work environment where knowledge workers can accelerate the development of their ideas and bring innovation to market, at the same time provide compelling career and development proposition that will enable them to realise their dreams.
What will you do?The Software Engineer position is a critical role, responsible for delivering efficient software in a high trust, high-performance environment. Comprising a diverse team of skilled, motivated and curious talent from both local and international locations, the role can be fully remote, hybrid or office based. Our relatively flat organisational structure lends itself to open communication, agility and collaboration. Developers need experience and/or a robust understanding of designing, developing and testing distributed, high-volume and highly reliable software. Business and Operational awareness, alongside experience with Cloud-based infrastructure is highly desirable.
Key deliverables are: Delivery: Contribute to the team's technical trajectory, ensuring alignment with major technical decisions and strategic team goals.Code Excellence: Ensure the delivery of high-quality code, upholding the team's commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.Problem solving: Whether autonomously or by drawing on support from the wider team; provide solutions to new and existing challenges.Innovative Tech Stack: Utilize a modern yet pragmatic Tech Stack to build a highly scalable distributed system, ensuring our technological capabilities remain relevant.Continuous Learning: Demonstrate a genuine interest in learning and development, with a view on remaining agile and responsive to business needs.Qualification and ExperienceDegree or Diploma6 to 8 years related experienceProgramming Languages & Coding Despite our language-agnostic approach, proficiency in full-stack / back-end Software Development languages (such as, but not limited to Python, Java, C++ for example) is required.Proficiency at reading, reviewing, understanding code.Understanding of implementation and the build & execution process is important: For example, strongly vs weakly typed, static vs dynamic, compiled vs interpreted.Algorithms and Data Structures Ability to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution, in the shortest possible time.Ability to suggest possible / relevant algorithms when developing and optimising solutions for time and space complexity.Engineering / Operational Excellence Understanding of scalability, robustness, operational visibility and agility.Understanding of distributed systems and designing these solutions.Knowledge of services like AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS) is preferred.Understanding of / experience with monitoring, metrics, visibility, health, fault tolerance.Experience with / understanding of load balancing and health checking.Experience with / understanding of APIs, auth.Experience with / understanding of databases and persistence.Experience with / understanding of scalable architecture for systems implementation.What will make you successful in this role?Being in a high ownership, high ambiguity, high autonomy environment where the impact of your work matters.Learn from the best. Get guidance from some of the most seasoned professionals around.Diving into projects that touch the lives of millions.Working with modern technologies.Knowledge and SkillsIT Data analysisSoftware design and deploymentsPlatform management and integrationPersonal AttributesInterpersonal savvyDecision qualityPlans and alignsOptimises work processesCore CompetenciesCultivates innovationCustomer focusDrives resultsCollaboratesBeing resilientOur commitment to transformationThe Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
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