Full Stack Engineer at Iress

Role Purpose 

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Developer with at least 4 years commercial experience and a strong background in high-performance systems. The position requires a driven, ambitious team player who enjoys a challenging, fast-paced environment. 

As a Software Engineer at Iress based in either our Johannesburg, Cape town or Durban offices, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining complex financial planning solutions for wealth and financial planning professionals, taking ownership of significant deliverables and collaborating with agile team members. The medium term prospect is to get exposure writing software in languages like C#, Python and React. 

Accountabilities & Deliverables 

• Develop and support client-facing and server-side applications and systems in a variety of programming languages and developer tools
• Design and develop cloud first solutions using microservice architecture pattern and by utilisation of the Iress Platform Foundation services
• Build integration systems to take on data, translate, persist data for the purpose of making it available to client facing software and internal services
• Promote and implement test automation, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with team members in a self-autonomous Agile squad where everyone is involved in product decisions
• Contribute to implementing a DevOps culture
• Solve complex problems at scale, developing high performance and quality applications with a global user base
• Communicates positively and confidently at all times.

Core Skills, Knowledge and Attributes 

• You will have at least 4 years commercial experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience with relational database technologies 
• Experience with continuous integration build processes (TFS, Hudson, Jenkins, buildkite) 
• Have a solid understanding of system design, data structures and design patterns
• Have a solid understanding of the concepts of multi-threading, event processing, data persistence strategies, network communications, GUI building, component development and object oriented software development

Key Competencies

• Solid full stack development experience using a variety of programming languages including Python, C# .NET Framework, .NET Core, JavaScript (server and client side)
• Experience using a variety of JavaScript libraries, frameworks and tools e.g. React, Redux, Node.js etc.
• Relational database design and development skills
• Git version control system (Bitbucket and/or GitHub)
• Good understanding of design patterns and software frameworks
• Good understanding using technologies like Docker, Docker Compose and Artifactory
• Worked with AWS cloud hosted solutions using services like ECS, S3, RDS PostGresSQL, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, API Gateway and Lambda 
• Worked with Cloud monitoring tools like Datadog 
• Experience delivering solutions within Agile teams using Scrum and/or Kanban
• A combination of personal traits (innovative, collaborative, honest, high integrity, intensity and passion)
• Communicates positively and confidently at all times

Why work with us?

• 6 paid days per year to extend your weekends
• State-of-the-art offices
• Hybrid working
• Equity grants for our top 25% performers
• Annual Profit Share when Iress meets its annual profit targets
• Access to learning and development programs through Udemy
• Global 36-hour hackathon
• Generous referral scheme
• Starting school leave - 8.5 days to support your children with the transition to school
• Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work