Job Description

Who are we?Sanlam Fintech is a newly established digital first business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent. We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth. Our culture us that of agility and constant deployment, we believe in learning fast, learning cheap and learning forward. Our aim is to provide a work environment where knowledge workers can accelerate the development of their ideas and bring innovation to market, at the same time provide compelling career and development proposition that will enable them to realize their dreams.About the RoleThe Software Developer position is a critical role, responsible for delivering efficient software in a high trust, high-performance environment. Comprising a diverse team of skilled, motivated and curious talent from both local and international locations, the role can be fully remote, hybrid or office based. Our relatively flat organisational structure lends itself to open communication, agility and collaboration. The role reports to a Technical Lead (who reports to the Chief Technology Officer).What will you do?Key deliverables are:

• Delivery: Contribute to the team's technical trajectory, ensuring alignment with major technical decisions and strategic team goals.
• Code Excellence: Ensure the delivery of high-quality code, upholding the team's commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Problem solving: Whether autonomously or by drawing on support from the wider team; provide solutions to new and existing challenges.
• Innovative Tech Stack: Utilize a modern yet pragmatic Tech Stack to build a highly scalable distributed system, ensuring our technological capabilities remain relevant.
• Continuous Learning: Demonstrate a genuine interest in learning and development, with a view on remaining agile and responsive to business needs.

Knowledge and SkillsDevelopers need experience and/or a robust understanding of designing, developing and testing distributed, high-volume and highly reliable software. Business and Operational awareness, alongside experience with Cloud-based infrastructure is highly desirable.Programming Languages & Coding

• Despite our language-agnostic approach, proficiency in full-stack / back-end Software Development languages (such as, but not limited to Python, Java, C++ for example) is required
• Proficiency at reading, reviewing, understanding code
• Understanding of implementation and the build & execution process is important: For example, strongly vs weakly typed, static vs dynamic, compiled vs interpreted

Algorithms and Data Structures

• Ability to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution, in the shortest possible time. This includes the ability to suggest situations in which a certain data structure would be applicable for example, and why
• Ability to suggests possible / relevant algorithms when developing and optimising solutions for time and space complexity - Including suggesting options and trade-offs, also in instances where scope increases or decreases, and solutions have to adapt

Engineering / Operational Excellence

• Understanding of scalability, robustness, operational visibility and agility
• Understanding of distributed systems and designing these solutions
• Knowledge of services like AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS) is preferred. AWS is however not a prerequisite, so knowledge / experience with any Cloud-based technologies would be useful.
• Understanding of / experience with monitoring, metrics, visibility, health, fault tolerance
• Experience with / understanding of load balancing and health checking
• Experience with / understanding of APIs, auth
• Experience with / understanding of databases and persistence
• Experience with / understanding of scalable architecture for systems implementation

Qualifications and ExperienceDegree or Diploma with 6 to 8 years experienceHow you'll think

• You are high agency: Looking for ways to do, instead of reasons not to.
• Where some see impossible, you see a way: Turning obstacles into opportunity, chance into change.
• You love creating more with less: Knowing that the biggest impact is born of the smallest acts.
• You seek out and value different perspectives: Believing that when we change how we look at things, how things look for us also changes. Making tomorrow not just different, but better.

What you'll enjoy:

• Being in a high ownership, high ambiguity, high autonomy environment where the impact of your work matters. The ideal environment for your capability growth.
• Learn from the best. Get guidance from some of the most seasoned professionals around. Our mentorship vibe is all about growing together, both professionally and personally.
• Diving into projects that touch the lives of millions.
• Working with modern technologies

Build a successful career with usWe're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters - Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.Turnaround timeThe shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.Our commitment to transformationThe Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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