Software Developer at Clickatell

• Career & personal growth opportunities within Clickatell are unusually high, fuelled by a team of Champions who drive growth.
• At Clickatell we invest in career development of our people and work closely with you on making your career goals a reality.

The role of our Champion Server-Side 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
• Partake in discussion of architecture, design recommendations and implementations
• Provide scheduled standby/on-call support of production software

The Capabilities of our Champion, Proven:

• Strong skills and experience in One or more of the following languages:
• Java (Spring Framework / Spring Boot experience)
• C/C++ or Python
• Database scripting (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and Continuous Delivery
• Proven Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Containerization (Docker / other), Kubernetes or other container orchestration frameworks
• AWS (Amazon Web Services) or other cloud-based infrastructures
• Linux or a recognized Unix platform
• Git or other Source Control Management tools – advantageous
• Jenkins – advantageous
• 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

The characteristics of our Champion Developer:

• Assertiveness and the 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 clearly and concisely; this applies to documents, written emails or within chats
• Customer Focus: identify and effectively respond to the diverse needs of development department’s customers
• Team Working: able to work reliably and responsibly with geographically dispersed 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 sense of humour

Our Champions journey so far:

• Experience in
• high volumes transactional/low latency solutions
• developing data access layers using ORM tools
• working with various relational databases
• multi-tiered, multi-threaded Java applications with a focus on high transaction/low latency communication tier
• integration with telecommunications service providers (RESTful APIs, SMPP)
• scrum / agile will be advantageous
• documentation of relevant design artefacts (use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams etc)
• Demonstrated focus on quality (unit testing, system testing, user acceptance testing)
• Computer Science degree from a reputable school (or 5+ years’ experience if no degree)

Why you will love being here:

• Competitive salary paid monthly
• Medical aid contributions
• Quarterly performance incentives
• Pension fund contribution
• Group life cover
• Communication allowances
• Undercover parking
• Half day off on your birthday
• 5 “personal” days leave a year, over and above your normal annual leave.
• Staff events, daily popcorn, snacks, cool offices. All the things that make Clickatell a fantastic place to work.