Senior Engineer: Back End and Cloud at MultiChoice

Purpose of the Position:

We are building a generalized, cloud-based Recommendation and Personalization platform that serves multiple internal and external clients at Multichoice.

The Senior Engineer: Backend and Cloud role should appeal to the elite programmer with a passion for Cloud, Serverless Computing, Big Data, Personalization, Search and Recommendations, Scalability as well as a working knowledge of the current technology landscapes in these areas. Staying abreast of all the latest Cloud trends is essential for this role.

Key Performance Objectives

Tasks

• Design, develop, maintain, and support projects using a variety of technologies.

Typical duties include:

• Ascertain requirements by interfacing with our internal clients
• Identify and research alternative technologies that potentially address the requirements
• Design and document architectures/applications/dataflows
• Develop various components (apps/scripts/sites/recommendation engines)
• Conduct code reviews on completion of these components
• Design tests for your code
• Support the production environment
   

This role will be responsible for delivery requirements for the following internal and external groups:

• Tech teams
• Product teams
• Potential & Existing Subscribers
• All internal divisions; associate companies and partners
   

Qualifications

• BSc Computer Science / Engineering is mandatory. Honours, Master’s or Doctoral degree preferred
• 4 – 5 years’ experience in a comparable environment
• Experience in reporting and presentation to senior and executive management
• Very strong analytical, communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to work under pressure
   

Experience

Languages:

• Required: Java/Python/NodeJS, HTML, Javascript, Linux shell scripting, Cloud scripting
• Beneficial: React, Redux, Material UI

 
DB:

• Beneficial: DynamoDB, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, HDFS, Hadoop, HBase
   

Cloud

• Beneficial (AWS): S3, Athena, Quicksight, Glue, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, Kendra / CloudSearch, Lambdas, Serverless, AWS Gateway, Transfer Family, DynamoDB, EC2, Terraform
• Beneficial: Other Cloud platforms like Azure, Google etc.

 
Other:

• Required: RESTful service development
• Beneficial: Knowledge of recommender systems, Tensorflow, Keras, Spark, Mahout, Stream processing, Kafka, Storm, Flink, Docker, Analytics platforms
   

Technical Competencies

• Scientific, data-minded, detail oriented with a good blend of practical reality
• Proficient in problem solving, algorithmic analysis, deeply technical
• Proven record of delivery and execution
• Quick learner
• Optimistic outlook
• A drive for excellence
• Ability to hit the ground running
• Ability to work independently if necessary
• Team player
• Deliverables driven
• Calm demeanour during stressful situations
• Great communicator
• Strong Cloud experience
• Strong core Java/Python/NodeJS skills
• Strong Linux skills
• Knowledge and experience building massively scalable systems
• Knowledge and experience working with high volumes of data (beneficial)
• Knowledge of SCRUM and Agile methodologies (beneficial)