Senior Engineer Back End at Salt South Africa

Purpose of the Position:

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

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
•  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 to 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

Experience

•  A minimum of 5 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
• Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.