Polyglot Software Engineers at SPAN Digital Innovation

Job description

SPAN is hiring mid to senior Polyglot Software Engineers!

SPAN is a technical strategy & software engineering firm headquartered in San Francisco, with dev offices in the Old Castle Brewery in Woodstock, Cape Town. SPAN’s founders (Andrew Sather, John Harris & Chris Lyon) created & evolved everything from iTunes-top-10 consumer mobile apps to Class-2 FDA-regulated cloud-based healthcare systems to the Shazam mobile app.

We are lucky enough to be home to some of the smartest, most gracious people building a unique, best-in-class, not-super-huge, citizens-of-the-world 21st-Century technology firm.

Our team consists almost exclusively of senior people working closely with our founders to invent radically capable things for global clients:

• Apple
• HERE [open location platform]
• Beats Music [music streaming service]
• Walmart Labs [idea incubator for the world's largest global retailer]
• Major League Baseball Advanced Media/Bamtech [multimedia & live streaming]
• HBO Now, WWE & EuroSport
• Player Pro [social soccer network]
• Pandora [music streaming service]
• 3DR [drone data platform]
• Denon [wireless music]

Our open source full-stack polyglots use Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, C, C++, ES6, NodeJs, ReactJs, Spark, Splunk, Akka, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQL, SPARQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Gearman, Kafka, Elasticsearch and whatever else required to:

• Create custom microservices
• Develop, deploy & operate, sophisticated large-scale SaaS solutions
• Develop feature-rich, cross-platform apps and product frameworks
• Model & design systems architecture

You’ll love it here if:

• You are allergic to hierarchical, bureaucratic, business-card cultures
• You're sad many of the greatest minds in our generation are busy tricking people into clicking on ads
• You want to work with very smart people from radically different backgrounds
• You are a voracious learner & an eager teacher of others
• You want to be led from the front, not commanded from the rear
• You don't tolerate intra-office posturing or other douchebaggery
• You're excited to work on a broader array of interesting, challenging projects than you can anywhere else

What we offer:

• Very flexible work schedule & untracked leave
• Learning organisation based on a reverence for expertise & craftsmanship (Meetups, PyCon, ScaleCon, Lunch & Learning Fridays, monthly San Fran thought-leaders etc)
• Catered Friday lunches, on-site haircuts, pet friendly workplace ...
• Macbook Pro Retina’s, noise cancelling headphones, dual monitors, ergonomic chairs, the usual startup perks

[Only SA based candidates will be considered. Please no recruiters]