Senior Engineer Back End needed at MultiChoice

Key Performance Objectives

Software Development

• Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
• Develop backend applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
• Develop, test, debug and maintain application code.
• Create and maintain technical and support documentation.
• Integrate existing as well as new applications, features and services on the online streaming platforms.
• Contribute to the entire application lifecycle, focusing on design and requirements validation, coding and debugging, testing, deploying.
• Write clean, understandable code with tests to develop functional backend applications in line with industry best practices and principles.
• Integrate and instrument application performance and health metrics to monitoring and logging services to enable effective troubleshooting and support of applications.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Continuously assess and improve application performance and stability.
• Support and improve legacy
• Build and deliver on technology roadmaps that help sunset legacy applications and keep up with the demands of the growing and evolving buiness
• Collaborate with Front-end Teams to integrate customer-facing elements with backend services.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Build reusable code and libraries for shared use across teams.
• Collaborate with Product, developers, UX designers and system administrators to identify new features and improvements.
• Research emerging technologies and propose the adoption of such technologies that will benefit.

Qualifications

• Diploma in IT or Computer Science
• Certification in Cloud Application Design and Development (advantageous)

Experience

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in software engineering
• You have exceptional knowledge of Webservice, Java, Node JS, REST, AWS, C# .Net (advantageous)
• Good experience working on the spring framework
• Tomcat, Apache
• CI/CD knowledge
• Experience with the likes of Jenkins, Maven
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous.
• RDBMS experience (MsSQL)
• NoSQL knowledge would be a definite advantage (MongoDB)
• Caching Technologies (Redis)
• Message Queues (RabbitMQ) and Event Driven Architecture
• Code Repository (Git/GitLab)
• Micro-Services and containerization (Docker)
• Proficient understanding of AWS Services like S3 Buckets, Lambdas, CDK, CloudFront, CloudWatch, ECS, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Kinesis, SQS
• Exposure to full life cycle systems development
• Object Orientated Programming
• Good understanding of Web Servers, IIS and Web Site setup and configuration (advantageous)
• 2+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms (advantageous).