Software Engineer II - Brackenfell at Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    

• Shoprite, Africa’s largest retailer, is embarking on an eCommerce rollout.  
• As the senior developer you will need to have a deep specialised knowledge beyond your peers in eCommerce and provide technical solutions to enterprise problems. 
• As the senior developer you would need to mentor other developers to allow us to create a high performing team by applying develops principles. 
• As the senior developer you will be responsible for setting up of the design patterns, libraries, frameworks and processes. You have to be aware how the organization and business partners work and be able to adapt, within the frameworks, to deliver. 

Job Objectives    

• Configuration and creation of technical components and services required to deliver online customer facing features
• Analyse and understand business requirements in the context of the current business environment in conjunction with Product Manager, Business Analysts and Solution Architects. 
• Develop and document design and maintain source base. 
• Create conceptual, logical and physical solutions, using appropriate coding techniques and methodologies. 
• Successful delivery of development projects and changes as required
• Thoughtful and clear understanding of program and project goals and needs. 
• Engagement with different stakeholders. 
• Identification and prioritization of project risks. 
• Perform code reviews. 
• Provide active technical advice to the team, IT and internal stakeholders. 
• Provide technical input and guidance into online channel evolution by keeping up to date with relevant technology
• Play a leading role in maintaining best of breed development standards for online technologies and solutions. 
• Research, understand and stay up to date with current trends in online channels and related Information Technology. 
• Adhere to best practices and processes for the team. 
• Technical competency in SAP Hybris technology stack. 
• Mentoring of development team
• Develop staff skills in SAP Hybris technology stack. 
• Setup procedures and process to facilitate best practice for development. 
• Help facilitate leadership and problem solving skills. 

Qualifications    

• Diploma /Degree in Information Systems / B.Sc Computer Science (or similar) (Essential)
• Matric with experience equal to three times the number of years study specified (Essential)

Experience    

• +5 years experience in eCommerce – Java especially SAP Hybris Commerce development (Essential)
• +5 years experience in being the senior developer within a development team (Essential)
• +5 years experience in software development and testing (Essential)
• +3 years experience in cloud solutions: AWS (Desirable) 
• +5 years experience of working on projects in both Agile and DevOps (Essential)
• +3 years hands on experience in a DevOps environment (Essential)

Knowledge and Skills    

• +5 years Agile/Scrum Tool set, preferably Atlassian (Desirable) 
• +5 years Ant, Maven or Gradle Build Tools (Essential)
• +5 years experience in distributed source control systems, like GIT (Essential)
• +5 years JSP, JavaScript, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, Java 8  Object Orientation Programming (Essential)
• +5 years Cloud Services (AWS Lamda) (Essential)
• +5 years Strong understanding of web services (SOAP and Rest) (Essential)