Senior Software Engineer at Hetzner (Pty) Ltd

Job description

Applying for this role, you have an opportunity to be a key seed member of a small, focused research and development team pursuing globally competitive, innovative solutions that add significant value to our customers.

Team members may collaborate virtually from anywhere in the world or in person from one of our South African offices (Durbanville, Cape Town & Samrand, Centurion).

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Engage meaningful, complex challenges, innovating solutions that become the global service offerings of tomorrow
• Grow your knowledge and skill set, while sharing your experience in pursuit of building a cutting edge, innovative team
• Make a significant contribution to Hetzner and our customers’ success
• Employ quality software engineering practices, without compromise
• Contribute to open source projects 
• Thrive on making stakeholders and customers happy
• Contribute to architecture, design and team strategy
• Flex your skills in requirements gathering, system design and coding
• Build lasting, high-quality software systems that go the distance and scale to our full customer base
• Play a key role in all parts of the product strategy and development life-cycle
• Deliver fast and consistently

Skills Requirement:

• B.Sc, B.Sc Hons. or M.Sc in computer science
• Solid requirements analysis, software architecture, design, implementation, quality assurance and agile experience (8+ years)
• Solid experience with and solution building experience with Linux development environments
• Experience with cloud solutions
• Proven track-record with service oriented architecture including identity management, service registry and micro-service components
• A passion for stakeholders and behaviour driven design
• High quality testing focus, diligence and a track record of consistently delivering quality
• Experience with continuous integration
• Fluent in ruby, following a test-driven approach
• Agile software development experience including the high value placed on user stories, frequent stakeholder interaction and feedback cycles
• Good team player - we succeed as a team and we fail as a team
• Good interpersonal skills

Advantageous

• Relevant experience in the process of translating needs into solutions and continuous improvement
• The ability to see the intent and need behind a request for work to be done, and finding creative solutions to address that need and communicate its solution
• The ability to balance various needs and non-functional requirements in designing solutions