Back End Developer at hearX Group

Job description

Department: Back End Development

Location of the position: Innovation Hub, Pretoria

Start date: Mid July 2017 (if candidate can start sooner, it would be advantageous)

We’re growing at an incredible pace and are are looking for a well-versed, enthusiastic backend developer to join the team and help build out an ambitious roadmap. Work will vary between exciting new projects in line with provided designs and frameworks and maintaining and upgrading our current service offering, through improving and streamlining projects alongside further updates and additions. You would be required to report to the lead backend developer. At hearX, you will be exposed to a vast array of world-first mHealth systems. The mHealth space is growing rapidly worldwide and the hearX Group is at the forefront of providing effective and scalable solutions.

That being said, the successful candidate will need to be agile to accommodate for high-stress and often dynamic situations.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Communicate and collaborate with our current team to solve problems and discuss best programming practices
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the systems and identify issues, bugs, and bottlenecks and devise solutions to these problems
• Be involved in the planning, design and development of new systems
• Taking personal ownership for projects and work quality
• Following best practice design and development methodologies in sustaining a high quality, clean, auditable and manageable system.
• Working within QMS frameworks for CE certification compliance.
• Attend meetings alongside the development lead, where necessary, with stakeholders for requirement analysis and feedback purposes.

Education and/or work experience requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience
• Experience in Golang or Proficiency in Ruby (and rails)
• Experience with API development (REST, RPC)
• Experience with MySQL
• Well versed in Git
• HTML and CSS experience
• JavaScript and jQuery Experience (AngularJS and Backbone JS)
• Great debugging and reasoning skills
• Being able to cope within stressful and dynamic (post-startup) environments.
• Team player mentality with a strong focus on taking personal ownership.