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Technology / Domain Specialists

Technology / Domain Specialists

Dimension Data • Sandton, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large-scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability. Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the company’s software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process.


The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery. The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimizations. The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the business including the Backend Software Engineers, Product Management, Infrastructure/DevOps and Security to advance the product roadmap



Requirements


  1. 10+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
  2. Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku
  3. Strong understanding of containers – Docker, Kubernetes
  4. Required experience in REST API development
  5. Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework - .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS
  6. Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ
  7. Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker
  8. Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace and DataDog
  9. Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
  10. Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems
  11. Experience working within an agile development environment
  12. Excellent written and oral communication skills
  13. Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team
  14. Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product
  15. Excellent written and oral communication skills
  16. Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects
  17. This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required


Qualifications


  1. B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
  2. Experience using Node.js tools, backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
  3. Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest) and CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
  4. Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc) and Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
  5. Experience using Monorepo’s using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
  6. Experience with Datadog, AWS services and using Terrafrom
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Technology / Domain Specialists • Sandton, South Africa