Senior Engineer Back End at MultiChoice

Purpose of the Position:

• To build and maintain the most dynamic, scalable, maintainable and high performing backend applications using latest technologies and frameworks to solve online streaming problems for our customers.

Key Performance Objectives

Tasks

System Development

• Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
• Develop backend applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
• Develop, test, debug and maintain application code.
• Develop, update and maintain technical documentation.
• Integrate existing as well as new applications onto Online, Mobile, Broad band & Broadcast platforms.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code with tests to develop functional backend applications in line with industry best practices and principles.
• Integrate to application monitoring tool to be able troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Continuously review and improve application performance.
• Support and improve legacy applications.
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Gather and address technical and design requirements.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features.
• Follow emerging technologies

Qualifications Essentials:

• Diploma in IT or Computer Science

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in software engineering
• You have exceptional knowledge of Webservice, C#, Java, JSON, REST, WCF
• Good experience working on the spring framework
• Good MVC knowledge
• Tomcat, Apache
• CI/CD knowledge
• Experience with the likes of Jenkins, Selenium, Maven, JBehave, Puppet
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous.
• RDBMS experience (MySQL, MSSQL)
• NoSQL knowledge would be a definite advantage (MongoDB, Neo4J)
• You also have previous exposure to full life cycle systems development
• You also have an understanding of XML data driven applications and object orientated programming
• Good understanding of Web Servers, IIS and Web Site setup and configuration

Technical Competencies (List the key technical competencies)

• Customer Oriented
• Architectural Design
• Application Development
• Programming
• Risk Management

Behavioral Competencies (List the key behavioral competencies)

• Relationship Building
• Conflict Resolution
• Decision Making
• Critical Appraisal
• Holistic Thinking
• Persuading & Influence