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Clickatell is a cutting edge technology company and global leader in mobile messaging that enables effortless, personalized, and contextual digital interactions between businesses and their customers.
Clickatell was the first company to enable a web to mobile app from any website in the world and, harnessing over a decade of insight into the complexities of...
Where you can make a difference:
Clickatell is a technology company that specializes in helping brands delight their customers with innovative, customer-centric solutions, giving them more time for what really matters.
Are you interested in building products used by millions of people? Do you wish you could launch code daily? Are you looking to work on an enterprise grade transactions platform hosted in cloud environments?
You will be joining an agile team of developers who are passionate about the products they build. We enable our clients to seamlessly transact and engage with their customers (on a global scale via channels like WhatsApp, Google RCS, etc). Clickatell is looking for a talented and ambitious developers that are passionate about building high performance (low latency, high transaction volumes) across multiple platforms.
We have a great company culture where we deeply value collaboration. Our environment allows you freedom to create and innovate while having fun at the same time. We believe that everyone has a say in the way we build products and solutions, regardless of their skills or experience.
This is an opportunity to join an energetic, fast paced, dynamic, Sequoia* backed company, offering ample growth opportunities and exciting challenges.
*Sequoia played a role in the funding of YouTube, Apple, Google and other exciting companies.
The role of our Champion Developer:
- Work with an awesome geographically distributed team of engineers and product designers to implement the next generation of products and/or features
- Work independently and collaborate on projects developing applications from scratch
- Build applications that can scale (millions of transactions/requests per day)
- Develop software iteratively and deliver working code each iteration, including authoring relevant documentation and test cases
- Be responsible for:
- implementing, debugging and testing of new product features, or enhancements on existing features, or assisting customers and vendors with implementing and troubleshooting end-to-end solutions
- Implementing a test driven development using unit tests and integration tests in an agile environment
- sustaining implemented features once delivered into production, including maintenance and support
- accurate and detailed documentation of relevant design artefacts (use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams etc)
- working closely with key stakeholders in particular with team leads and technical managers
- Partake in discussion of architecture, design recommendations and implementations
- Adhere to policies and standards as applied by the team and directed by the technical manager
- Provide scheduled standby/on-call support of production software
The Capabilities of our Champion:
- Having worked in and has a deep level of understanding in the following
- Python and supporting libraries and frameworks, (Java advantageous)
- Databases SQL language and scripting (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Continuous Delivery
- Containerization (Docker / other), Kubernetes or other container orchestration frameworks
- AWS (Amazon Web Services) or other cloud-based infrastructures & services
- Linux or a recognized Unix platform
The characteristics of our Champion Developer:
Has proven behavioural characteristics in the following:
- Assertiveness: ability to convince others of right course of action and to explain a point of view convincingly
- Verbal Communication: good interpersonal skills, verbal communication skills and able to communicate clearly
- Written Communication: ability to write clear and concise documents, etc.
- Customer Focus: identify and effectively respond to the diverse needs of development department’s customers
- Team Working: able to work reliably and responsibly with internal and external colleagues to achieve development and organisational goals as a member of a team
- Individual Working: able to work alone and to reliably and responsibly achieve development and organisational goals
- Work Style: Foresight, analysis and logic, systematic and orderly planning, attention to detail
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Mentoring and coaching skills
Our Champions journey so far:
Proven technology experience in:
- high volumes transactional/low latency solutions
- multi-tiered, multi-threaded Python applications with a focus on high transaction/low latency communication tier
- integration with 3rd party platforms such as those belonging to telecommunications service providers and banks/financial institutions
- implementation of solutions as micro services, in the cloud an advantage
- incorporation and utilisation of native cloud services
Process experience in:
- Hybrid waterfall/agile environments
- Agile environments including attendant tools and steps
- Academic qualification - Computer Science degree or equivalent diploma from a reputable school (or 10+ years relevant experience if no degree)
- Work experience - Has a proven track record of working in relevant roles of 8 years or more
- Proven industry experience in Financial or banking, messaging, or telecommunications an advantage
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