Back End JavaScript Engineer (Senior) at Sanlam Indie

Job description

We’re on a mission to help people navigate their way to financial freedom one step at a time.

Indie looks, feels and works like a startup, but has the backing and expertise of a leading South African insurance and investment giant - Sanlam. The Indie team is full of creative, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. We’re building a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to find purpose in their work. If that sounds like you, we might be just the right fit.

We're looking for a Back End Engineer who will be focused on building the API driven backend for our core systems. 

Job requirements

Role and Responsibilities

• Be part of the team working and building on our core insurance platform
• Expand on our existing NodeJS-driven APIs and create new ones as our product suite and third-party integrations expand.
• Help decide and plan which features we will build, and how they are architected and implemented.
• You will work closely with your team, which includes other software engineers, QA’s, product managers, our designers as well as members of the broader Sanlam Indie team.
• Testing your work, with as much automation as is useful.
• Making sure the code you’ve created can work in an AWS (containerised) environment.

Our Ideal Candidate

The Indie team is full of smart, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. If you’re creative, professional and kind, we’d love to hear from you. We need passionate and curious people like you to help us make our vision a reality.

• You are proficient in JavaScript, Node and have some experience in front-end frameworks like React
• You have the ability to work on your own, sometimes spearheading a new direction with minimal guidance
• Strong understanding of development standards, patterns and practices
• Experience deploying apps in AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
• Knowledgeable and enthusiastic about writing well-tested applications
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and Web Services
• A passion for learning, and for sharing what you learn.

What do we mean by a senior developer?

• You can handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
• You lead others, or others look to you for guidance.
• You can self manage your projects
• The code you write is written with maintainability, simplicity and scalability in mind