Software Engineer (Cape Town) at Ninety One

In this role you will:

• Assist in architectural design and engineering an N-tier cloud-native technology platform (full-stack)
• Assist with re-enforcing software engineering best practices and cloud design patterns that lead to but not limited to highly available, reliable, performant, and user-centric systems.
• Review code against engineering best practices, performance, reliability, security and intended business outcomes
• Engage with business and technical stakeholders and translate business into technical requirements
• Participate in, refine, and improve our Dev Ops processes
• Participate in Program Increment planning, scrum ceremonies – size tickets, run planning and retrospectives
• Write and review technical documentation.
• Test systems against performance, reliability, and security expectations.
• Test systems and run testing in larger groups
• Support our current services
• Assist with supporting a culture of knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and improvement.
• Build relationships within Technology and across the wider business through delivery. We succeed together.

You should consider applying if you have:

• A BSc or other relevant degree.
• Minimum of 5 years actively working with micro-service architectures in a full-stack capacity, including cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and programming languages such as C#, Angular, SQL.
• Worked with containarized applications orchestrated through Service Fabric or Kubernetes.
• Worked with cloud platforms such as App Services, Function Apps, Service Bus, Event Hub, Service Fabric, Kubernetes, API Manager, CosmosDB, Data Factory, Storage Accounts.
• Implemented automated test-driven development and continuous testing
• Worked with CI/ID platforms such as Azure DevOps
• Experience in Financial Services/Asset Management, Azure technologies is advantageous.
• Associate to expert level cloud certifications from Microsoft / AWS / GCP will be advantageous.
• A desire to be seen and treated as an individual, rather than a job description.
• A passion for building relationships with people, understanding their needs and addressing them
• An interest in financial and other data – how we fetch it, store it, deliver it, and display it.
• A passion for building user-centric technology systems.

Some of the attributes we look for in a person are:

• A client focused and collaborative approach
• Intellectual curiosity
• The ability to ‘approach and own’ and continuously look for opportunities to develop
• Driven by results