OM Bank - Lead Python Backend Engineer at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

ROLE OVERVIEW

• The role of the Lead Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and leading the design and development of solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build solutions from requirements received from product owner
• Be able to work in agile environment.
• Able to build POC solutions and demonstrate/present.
• Maintain a stable server with zero downtime
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and elective technical solution.
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, code
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Review and debug code
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products
• Be able to report on his work using agile tools such as JIRA.
• Be able to elaborate and document their work in confluence.
• Communicative and proactive.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications & Professional Affiliations

• Relevant University Degree and Professional Qualification.

Experience

• AWS components such as Lambda, SQS , Dynamo DB
• AWS API Gateway
• Terraform
• Python 3.9
• Pytest
• Knowledge of Rest API integrations
• Openapi, swagger
• GitHub actions for CI CD
• Docker and Docker compose
• Makefile
• Apache velocity language
• Proven experience as a Back-end developer

Closing Date

• 14 April 2026