Architect - Cape Town at PayFast

About the team

Our team is dynamic and works in all spheres of the business, focusing mainly on delivering robust cloud solutions for our business systems. We are a group of fast-thinking solution-driven individuals that are passionate about getting the best performance out of our systems being utilized by our merchants and their customers.  

About you

You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. You will be involved in expanding our existing payment platform and supporting software and building new and exciting features and applications relating to payments, online commerce, fraud detection and security.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

• Design, develop and execute software systems and applications to address business needs
• Define all aspects of software and app development, from coding standards to workflow and appropriate technology 
• Identify areas where processes and system architecture can be improved 
• Provide architectural blueprints and technical leadership to the IT team 
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform 
• Work closely with the product team to translate business ideas into technical solutions
• Keep up to date with technology trends in the industry 
• Contribute towards creating documentation that enhances organisational understanding and keeps track of decision making 
• Do code reviews for selected complex stories 
• Do hands-on coding in PHP, Laravel, Lumen or MariaDB when the need is there 
• Do architectural reviews to ensure developers interpreted and followed your specifications correctly 

What you'll need

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in development 
• Broad understanding of coding, programming languages and frameworks, especially PHP, Laravel, Lumen, MariaDB/MySQL, and GoLang (advantages)
• AWS experience would be an advantage
• Good understanding of Microservices and Web API integration 
• Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles 
• Experience designing and implementing software applications, both backend and frontend
• Experience working on large-scale software projects, ecommerce platform building experience is a plus