Who are we?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.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.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. The ideal environment for your capability growth.Learn from the best. Get guidance from some of the most seasoned professionals around. Our mentorship vibe is all about growing together, both professionally and personally.Diving into projects that touch the lives of millions.Working with modern technologies.Qualification and ExperienceDegree or Diploma6 to 8 years related experienceProgramming Languages & CodingDespite 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 StructuresAbility to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution, in the shortest possible time. This includes the ability to suggest situations in which a certain data structure would be applicable for example, and why.Ability to suggests possible / relevant algorithms when developing and optimising solutions for time and space complexity – Including suggesting options and trade-offs, also in instances where scope increases or decreases, and solutions have to adapt.Engineering / Operational ExcellenceUnderstanding 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. AWS is however not a prerequisite, so knowledge / experience with any Cloud-based technologies would be useful.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.Knowledge and SkillsIT Data analysisIT product enhancementsSoftware design and deploymentsPlatform management and integrationBusiness Requirements definitionPersonal AttributesInterpersonal savvy - Contributing through othersDecision quality - Contributing through othersPlans and aligns - Contributing through othersOptimises work processes - Contributing through othersCore CompetenciesCultivates innovation - Contributing through othersCustomer focus - Contributing through othersDrives results - Contributing through othersCollaborates - Contributing through othersBeing resilient - Contributing through othersBuild a successful career with usWe're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.Turnaround timeThe shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.Our 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. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.
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