Python Engineer - Johannesburg at Progressive Edge

Your core responsibilities include:

• Developing core back-end platforms in a mixture of both open source and custom code
• Developing domain- and customer-specific applications and platforms
• Supporting the front-end team
• Identifying application features and requirements into be abstracted to the core

Requirements:

Experience in:

• Python and Flask
• Angular
• RESTful APIs with Swagger specifications
• API security frameworks, token management and user access control, including OAuth and JWT
• Message queues with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ZeroMQ
• Building and managing Docker containers
• Database architecture, scalability and performance
• Source control systems and creating / integrating CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins
• Writing unit-tested, extendable, and maintainable code
• Working in an Agile / Scrum environment

Beneficial knowledge:

• Python web frameworks: Django, Tornado
• AWS general concepts, with specific knowledge on: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambdas, SES, SNS, CloudFront, ECS, Fargate
• SQLAlchemy and Connexions
• BPMN or similar process management concepts