Snr Software Developer (Full Stack & Amp; Kafka) (Western Cape) needed at Flash Group

Description

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Use your experience to assist different solve complex technical problems across different teams and tech stacks
• Support and enhancement of an established, multi-faceted technology platform, and associated 3rd party integrations.
• Work with Solutions Architects and other Team Leads to deliver on business requirements
• Provide work estimates based on analyzed business and technical requirements.
• Working closely with QA to identify development and production issues.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring changes are:
• unit and integration tested
• documented
• optimized to ensure benchmarks are met.
• Assisting in out of hours’ production releases when required, as well as out-of-hours support when necessary.
• Support and mentor junior team members in the team.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build front-end applications with visually appealing design
• Develop and manage databases, applications and APIs
• Test software for responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Have a minimum of 8 -10 years’ experience in software development

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cassandra or similar NoSQL database
• Graph technology (graph database)
• Apache Spark
• JSON REST Service and APIs
• Apache Kafka or other message queue/middleware
• Notebook environments (e.g., Jupyter)

ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS

• C# .Net Core
• Identity Server authentication.
• Cloud Native architecture
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure DevOps
• Redis
• RabbitMQ

COMPETENCIES

• Problem solver
• Ability to lead projects
• Ability to communicate about technology in non-technical terms to colleagues and client
• Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure