Software Engineer (Python) at SUMMIT Africa Recruitment

Software Engineer (Python)

• Our client who is a leading South African online retailer, is looking for highly talented Software Engineer (Python) to join their team in Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Design and build solutions to assist our business users, and improve customer experience
• Architect and design solutions with your team
• Keep up to date with technology trends, both locally and internationally
• Apply creative thought processes to solve complex challenges at scale
• Strong focus on making the company the best place to shop at, a happy customer is a repeat customer
• Drive for excellence, to help foster a world-class engineering team

Attributes required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Ability to dis-aggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
• Solid quantitative skills
• Ability to interview and interact professionally, with internal and external people
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, with a major in Computer Science or similar (your experience can override this requirement)
• Minimum of two years’ experience in a software engineering role
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• Experience in the following will be advantageous:
• Python, JavaScript, React, jQuery, PHP
• MySQL, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• nginx, RabbitMQ, memcached
• Docker, Kubernetes, Chef
• GitHub, Travis CI, Jenkins
• Amazon EC2, Amazon S3