Senior Backend Engineer at Impact

Your Role at Impact:

• As a Senior Software Engineer in the Affluent business unit, your focus will be on delivering features through planning, designing, implementing, testing and deploying. You will be self sufficient with an understanding of ancillary services and infrastructure.
• You will have experience across multiple languages with practical experience in common architectural patterns, implementing blackbox and whitebox testing and complex integration testing frameworks.
• You will also be working closely with the SSO to prioritise, and understand the strategic direction of the product and help team members with planning, design and implementation.

What You'll Do:

• Develop, test and maintain software for the Platform
• Build meaningful unit, functional and integration level tests for the software built
• Develop code both independently and while pair programming
• Write and maintain design, user and test documentation
• Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs
• Build customer and non customer facing code.
• Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Create SQL for Tech Updates and ensure this is ready for review
• Review business needs, requirements, technical specifications
• Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner
• Mentor and give guidance to less senior staff to grow careers
• Perform code reviews, point releases and approve pull requests
• Maintain build- and stage stability
• Research and prototype new technologies
• Design and own software solutions
• Evolve architecture

What You Have:

• Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience
• Open Source contributions are beneficial
• Experience working with Node.js, Express, Jest and related Technologies
• 8+ years Software Development
• Agile / Iterative processes. Kanban / Scrum
• Knowledge of Relational Databases, Table design, SQL
• TDD experience
• Continuous Integration / Delivery methods, tooling, integrations
• Experience working with Large Scale processing
• Exposure and experience in any Google Cloud technology highly desired
• Experience in monitoring, alerting and production support
• Knowledge of Digital Marketing is a big plus
• Exposure to front end technologies
• Experience Mentoring / Training teams

Benefits/Perks:

• Unlimited PTO policy
• Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
• Training & Development
• Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
• Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
• Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
• Stock Options
• 4-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
• Internet Allowance
• Flexible work hours
• Casual work environment