Our Client in the Medical Devices industry is looking for a Backend Developer (Hybrid), in Pretoria.Responsibilities:
Will be responsible for DevOps, optimizing internal tools and flows, and ensuring security and processes for development and cloud infrastructure with technical documentation and software development lifecycle flows.
Communicates with B2B GM and B2B Backend Lead regarding understanding of systems, and strategy and then oversees the implementation.
Communication with team members about expectations and solutions specifications, ensuring product quality by standardizing work procedures based on the company policies (establishing such policies).
This would include responsibilities such as DevOPS, optimizing secure flows, ensuring redevelopment process with the for development and cloud infrastructure with technical documentation and software development lifecycle flows.
Assists with process, structure, task management, and implementations.
Developing and maintaining software products and solutions offered by the company.
Backend Development & Programming 50%:
Work with stakeholders to design and achieve appropriate, scalable technology solutions.
Develop and implement project plans to develop software.
Analyse systems for root cause, impact, workarounds, and permanent fixes.
Communicate effectively and efficiently with the line manager on progress, priorities, and workload.
Meet development timelines in projects and deliverables.
Identify and mitigate risks, making appropriate mid-course corrections as required.
Adhere to agreed-upon standards for code.
Generate and maintain effective and efficient high-quality, reusable code.
Use effective and efficient components & techniques to implement solutions.
Ensure all work is versioned and backed up according to company standards.
Meet set deliverable deadlines.
Ensure system security and data safety and compliance with standards.
Ensure all documentation is completed for projects/updates, that all code is commented on, and that QMS standards are followed in this regard.
Create pipelines to optimize code deployments (CICD).
Design and implement new databases.
Plan and execute migrations between legacy and new databases/software.
Analysis and Planning 20%:
Multitask on a range of products and tasks simultaneously, defining priorities and ensuring efficiency.
Define and communicate problem, goal, and acceptance criteria.
Communicate and collaborate with development, business analyst, and design teams to solve problems, make recommendations, and discuss best programming practices.
Research possible solutions and techniques.
Prepare a work breakdown structure.
Determine and account for dependencies among deliverables, products, and systems.
Accurately estimate the duration of deliverables.
Document analysis and planning process.
Testing and Implementation 10%:
Ensure that all work is tested, benchmarked, and fulfils functional requirements submitted for approval, review, or deployment.
Prepare test environment, examples, and instructions.
Participate enthusiastically in peer code reviews.
Deploy changes to the live environment.
Maintain system and product change logs and release notes according to company standards.
Database Administration 5%:
Engineer data structures.
Ensure compliance with data security standards.
Perform maintenance to ensure data integrity and efficiency.
Deploy new structure and content.
Restore data when required.
Provide reports on database administration as required.
Reporting and Communication 10%:
Keep project documentation up to date and standard.
Provide timely, efficient, and effective feedback on project status.
Proactively keep stakeholders updated on progress, risks, and problems.
Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements, and development of user stories, estimates, and work plans.
Prepare reports, manuals, and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software.
Provide insight and feedback on queries regarding relevant projects.
Compliance 5%:
Comply to ISO, CE, FDA (and other) standards and requirements as applies to assigned products.
Safeguard confidential information and data.
Maintain backups and backup systems.
Requirements:
5+ years working experience.
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar)
Course or Certificate in Programming.
Backend Software development (Required nature of experience)
Skills and Knowledge (essential):
Design and build data stores with complex relationships (relational or NoSQL).
Built/Designed distributed systems, back-end APIs, or microservices and cloud infrastructure, best practices, and security.
CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
Experience with continuous deployment technologies (CICD e.g. GitHub actions).
Skills and Knowledge (desirable):
Golang & Typescript:
Familiarity with (TDD) unit testing, performance, load, or end-to-end integration tests.
Cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure.
IAC, CDK, AWS Cloud formation, Terraform.
Understand business processes and domains.
Remuneration:
R600 000 - R850 000 per annum plus a 13th cheque, pension & risk benefit contribution.