Integration Engineer at Virgin Active South Africa

Your Purpose...

• Is to “change people’s lives for the better through wellness”;
• We deliver social wellness experiences that enable people to meet their personal wellness goals, through holistic physical, mental nutritional and social wellbeing.
• As we transform into a Social Wellness Club, we’re redefining how we approach technology by building globally scalable solutions. A key part of this transformation is consolidating our core member engagement platform (our Mobile App and related services) under a central team. This team will own a unified codebase, enabling faster, more consistent feature rollouts across multiple countries.
• We’re looking for an Integration Engineer to design, build, and support the backend and integration services powering our Digital ecosystem and related platforms. You’ll be a hands-on engineer, delivering reliable, secure, and scalable software across internal and third-party systems, while contributing to the success of your work-stream through feature delivery and operational support.
• You’ll work closely with the Engineering Manager / Leads, Product Managers, Designers, QA, and front-end developers to deliver high-quality backend and integration solutions/services that align with our product and business goals.
• This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering well-defined integration and backend work, improving code quality and reliability, and helping the team ship maintainable, scalable software. The role is backend and integration focused, while working closely with front-end teams to support end-to-end delivery.

Your Duties and Responsibilities...

Delivery & Ownership

• Design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and integration solutions supporting digital products and related platforms.
• Contribute actively to technical discussions, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and estimation sessions.
• Support and collaborate with other engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and strong engineering practices.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code aligned with team standards and agreed architecture.
• Participate in code reviews and continuously improve implementation quality through peer feedback.

Technical Execution

• Develop and support solutions using C#, .NET, Azure Cloud, and API/event-driven patterns.
• Partner with the Engineering Lead to apply engineering standards, architectural patterns, and development practices.
• Work across internal platforms and third-party systems to deliver robust, scalable, and maintainable integrations.
• Apply sound engineering practices across coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, and secure software development.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure smooth integration with APIs, services, and third-party platforms.
• Help improve system reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across the backend stack.
• Troubleshoot and resolve integration failures, defects, and performance issues across distributed services and partner integrations.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment readiness, and release quality.
• Support the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of integration services through strong technical execution and attention to operational detail.

Operational Excellence

• Participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to improve system resilience.
• Support improvements to monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across integration services.
• Help balance delivery speed with code quality, maintainability, and technical debt management.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities early, escalating where appropriate to keep delivery on track.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Collaborate with QA, Data, Operations, and frontend teams to deliver high-quality features end to end.
• Communicate progress, technical constraints, trade-offs, and delivery risks clearly to the Engineering Lead and broader team.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies including estimation, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to engineering documentation, technical knowledge sharing, and reusable development practices.
• Help improve automated testing, CI/CD, code quality tooling, and developer experience.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, simplify solutions, and improve delivery speed and quality within your area.
• Stay current with engineering practices and development / Azure best practices.

Our Minimum Requirements...

We can’t live without… (Minimum Requirements)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with solid experience in backend development and systems integration.
• Good hands-on experience with C#, .NET, and Azure cloud services.
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs, backend services, and integration solutions in Azure Cloud and related integration services.
• Good understanding of API-led, event-driven, and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals including clean code, testing, debugging, version control, and secure development practices.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, and modern software delivery practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues across distributed systems, integrations, and third-party dependencies.
• Experience working with internal and external systems to deliver successful end-to-end integrations.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Exposure to Azure integration services such as Service Bus, Logic Apps, Functions, and Event Grid.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks and best practices.
• Experience supporting mobile app ecosystems or product-centric digital platforms.
• Experience contributing to the scalability, reliability, and supportability of backend and integration systems.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and asynchronous messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Prior experience working with distributed, remote, or hybrid engineering teams.

Core Interpersonal Skills:

• Emotional Intelligence- proven ability to anticipate the needs of others before they are voiced
• Active Listening- Able to genuinely hear concerns with the ability to defuse tense situations and ensuring members and staff feel heard and valued
• Cultural Awareness and Fluency- understand international norms, etiquette and diverse backgrounds to provide a welcoming environment for our international and VIP members
• Empathy – be able to understand, or and be aware of, someone else’s feelings especially during stressful situations, such as travel delays or billing disputes

Operational & leadership Skills Required:

• Attention to Detail, noticing the small things
• Resilience and Composure, be able to remain calm and optimistic under extreme pressure, during peak or periods or system failures
• Problem solving and conflict resolution – be able to turn challenges into opportunities by thinking and acting quickly to resolve issues before they impact a member’s experience
• Adaptability: be flexible to handle unpredictable shifts in processers, resource changes, last minute VIP guest arrivals, or sudden changes in event plans.
• Relatability – the capacity to connect with diverse stakeholders across all backgrounds
• Situational Awareness – constantly monitoring the environment to identify members who need support or help
• Curiosity- the ability to seek out and transform standard transactions into personalised stories and memorable experiences
• Time Management – the ability to efficiently meet stringent deadlines while maintaining a relaxed and unhurried demeanor for guests.
• Digital Fluency – must be proficient in new age technology and systems

Closing Date 15 April 2026