Specialist Product Engineer at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Skills and Experience Required:

Cloud & DevOps 

• Experience with AWS services (Lambda, S3, API Gateway, RDS, IAM, etc.). 
• Experience with GitHub for version control and CI/CD pipelines. 
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments. 

Backend Development 

• Proficiency in Java and TypeScript with experience in backend frameworks such as NestJS, Express.js, Spring Boot, or any other TypeScript/Java-based framework. 
• Experience building scalable RESTful APIs and microservices. 

Frontend Development 

• Expertise in Angular and TypeScript. 
• Strong understanding of responsive UI design and state management. 

Database Management 

• Experience with PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL). 
• Ability to design and optimize database schemas and queries. 

Nice to Have 

• Experience with serverless architectures and event-driven programming. 
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). 
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills. 
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK). 

AI & Automation 

• Experience with GitHub Co-pilot Studio and AI-driven development. 
• Understanding of AI/ML integration into applications is a plus.  

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology