Senior Software Engineer, Finance at Impact

Your Role at Impact:

As a Senior Software Engineer, your focus will be on delivering stories for the squad, monitoring production environments and managing deployments to production.

This role assumes that you are able to utilize the latest features of a language and can effectively select and implement the right design pattern to solve problems independently.

You will have experience implementing integration tests, be comfortable working with CI and confidently reuse existing frameworks.

At this level you are expected to have an understanding of the business requirements of all stories in the sprint, implement stories on existing cloud infrastructure and services and independently implement agreed design to spec. You should feel comfortable escalating appropriately.

You are also expected to help team members with implementation

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives 
• Develop code both independently and while pair programming 
• Write and maintain design, user and test documentation 
• Become familiar with technologies used on the squad 
• 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 
• Keeps technically abreast of trends and advancements within area of specialization, incorporating these improvements where applicable 
• 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 
• Approve pull requests 
• Perform point releases 
• Maintain build- and stage stability 
• Research and prototype new technologies 
• Design and own software solutions 
• Evolve architecture 
• Regularly review peer contributions and take part in constructive retrospectives to increase efficiency 
• Actively contribute to and maintain technical documentation 
• Follow technology trends and incorporate new promising technology as required to keep with the times 
• Ability to assess, debug and resolve technical issues 
• Contribute to creative solutions that help make the development process more efficient 
• Elevated ownership of application stability

What You Have:

• Initiative 
• Adaptability 
• Being a team player 
• Personal Development 
• Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience. 
• Opensource contributions are beneficial 
• 8+ years experience: Java 8 +, SQL, Unix shell commands, version control, JDBC, OR Tools (Hibernate, JPA), Spring MVC, HTTP/Rest protocols, build tools (Gradle/Maven), CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/etc), JVM & Garbage collection, NOSQL & Data lakes, Cloud Computing, Load balancing 
• Experience working with Java, Spring 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 
• Good understanding of JVM and Garbage Collection 
• Knowledge of Digital Marketing is a big plus 
• Exposure to front end technologies 
• Experience Mentoring / Training teams 
• Experience in taking ownership off larger pieces of work 
• Proven track record of influencing architecture and inter-disciplinary dependencies

Benefits/Perks:

Casual work environment, including working from home

• Flexible work hours
• 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

• 6 month paternity/maternity leave
• 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
• Restricted Stock Units

3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval

• Internet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursements