Job Description

ENVIRONMENT:An exciting opportunity has come up with a leading online retailer in South Africatheyre looking for a Lead Python Developer to join their team. In this role, youll be involved in designing, implementing, supporting, and maintaining scalable services across different platforms. Youll get to shape both business and technical strategies while working on end-to-end solutions. If you have a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, plus at least 5 years of software development experience, theyd love to connect with you!DUTIES:

• Build scalable software systems supporting their growing business and customers.
• Work closely with other engineers, professional services teams, and product managers.
• Participate/lead architecture proposals for your division's domain
• Develop high-quality production code for work of high complexity and scale
• Champion, challenge, and iterate on best practices within engineering
• Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision trade-offs, typically system- or domain-wide
• Analyse and understand business requirements and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and produce technical specifications that meet these requirements
• Assist the product teams in helping to determine priorities for technical projects
• Support, challenge existing, and define new engineering processes and directives
• Lead interviews and assess potential engineering candidates for skills and fit
• Mentor, coach, and share knowledge with your peers through blog posts, tech talks, and workshops across engineering
• Add value to the team and business.
• Continuously learn and improve your knowledge and the deliverables.

REQUIREMENTS:Skills needed:

• Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
• Ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs.
• Experience in developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures.
• Hands-on experience with *nix and Python.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, relational & non-relational datastores, containerization, and cloud service providers.

Nice to have experience:

• AWS Cloud technologies.
• GIT version control.
• PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis.
• Kafka.
• Docker, Kubernetes

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field or related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of Software Development experience is required.
• If you do not have a Bachelors Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 7 years of Software Development experience.

ATTRIBUTES:

• Passion for learning new skills and appreciation for inventing and simplifying

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.COMMENTS:When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA Citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Apply hereOR e-mail a Word copy of your CV to and mention the reference number of the job.

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