Current Vacancies at AnyVan

What you'll be doing:

• Help future proof the business and support  growth by delivering excellent production ready,  logical and pragmatic code in the following languages - PHP, Python, SQL, Java, Javascript,  JS Frameworks e.g. Angular, React, Vue, AWS, Serverless

• Architect software and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Follow best-in-class agile processes
• Drive for use of accepted design patterns to allow for autonomous and iterative development and future scaling needs
• Use business and system domain knowledge to anticipate and minimise the cost of future change
• Manage stakeholder expectations and anticipate and communicate blockers, delays to mitigate risk in advance of issues arising
• Ensure testing techniques and frameworks are considered and champion improvements to achieve company quality goals more efficiently
• Help foster a security first mindset
• Troubleshoot and solve complex software issues to overcome obstacles, resolve blockers and complete tasks
• Communication and collaboration - You’ll  work closely with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders to build trust based relationships and foster a culture of open collaboration, ensuring complex technical issues and findings can be easily translatable to both technical and non-technical audience
• Keep abreast of  market conditions, trends and competitors to ensure the department/business remains leading edge and risk in mitigated
• Be a subject matter expert in relevant functional, industry and AnyVan related knowledge products/services/process
• Help drive continuous improvement across the technology department, through role modelling and leading on or championing department wide improvement initiatives
• Mentor and coach more junior team members

What skills and experience would set you up for success in the role:

• Experience working across the stack with exposure to several of the following:   PHP, Python, SQL, Java, Javascript,  JS Frameworks e.g. Angular, React, Vue, AWS, Serverless
• Genuine passion for the end product and delivering outstanding customer solutions with pragmatic, logical and maintainable code
• Experience influencing key stakeholders (internally and externally) to consistently deliver against key projects
• An in-depth understanding of web development practices and technologies and tools. Exposure to e-commerce a bonus
• Familiar with software architecture patterns, database optimisations, infrastructure, scalability and deployment
• A broad understanding of the software development lifecycle and practical hands-on experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery & QA
• Experience working in and driving an Agile development environment

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• As a Data Engineer you will work closely with teams in the Data Space, namely: Business Intelligence, Data Science and Software Engineering Teams.

Some of your daily responsibilities will include the following:

• Design, implement and maintain (monitoring, alerting, incident resolution) a Data Warehouse Administer tools and systems (security, access control, performance)
• Help Software Engineering Teams understand how the features they release perform over time
• Help the BI team in their journey to promote self-service datasets for key business areas
• Automation through Infrastructure As Code and scripting
• Data quality and consistency data standardisation, documentation and user onboarding

Here are some of the tools and technologies you will use;

• Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, Airflow, Python, AWS Services (Fargate, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, Cloudwatch, to name a few), Terraform, CircleCI, Github, Docker, Datadog, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Suite.

Skills and experience we think you'll need to be successful in the role;

• Experience working in fast paced consumer focused organisation, preferably in a scaleup phase
• A good understanding of Devops Best Practices around automation (e.g. CI/CD)
• Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS preferred but not mandatory)
• Understands Infrastructure As Code (Terraform preferred but not mandatory)
• Experience of Data Security best practices and Data Privacy laws
• Experience running Data Platforms to support Production workloads
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Strong understanding of Git

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What you’ll be doing:

• Helping our customers move home/items as cost effectively and environmentally friendly as possible in Germany
• Manage a pipeline of warm leads, pro-actively contacting our customers via phone and email to understand their needs and find the most effective solution to identify, qualify and complete the sale
• Managing short sales cycles with varying order sizes, building trust based relationships - keeping customer satisfaction front of mind at all times
• Managing quotes and liaising with our transport providers to negotiate the best prices for our customers
• Working to agreed targets that focus on both numbers (revenue generation) and ethics (selling in the right way)
• Having fun and contributing to a positive team vibe. This is a busy role and we know it’s important to create those moments to lighten the mood and have a laugh - the whole team plays their part in supporting each other

Skills and experience we think you’ll need to be successful in the role:

• High fluency in German (as you will be dealing with customers based in Germany) and English (as this is the language we use to communicate with our colleagues)
• Experience working in a fast paced sales environment
• Comfortable spending most of your day speaking on the phone
• Comfortable working to and achieving targets
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Self-motivated, resilient and not phased by change
• Easily adopts change and demonstrates agility and flexibility when direction or priorities shift
• One team mind-set and the ability to develop, high quality, trust-based working relationships and guide customers and transport providers through processes to achieve the best results for the business
• All our contact centre roles are fully based on site so it's essential you can easily commute to Floor 20, The Towers, Hertzog Boulervard, Cape Town, 8001 for work
• We align to UK operating hours and as an international business work to UK timezones, all roles operate on a shift pattern basis around the following in South African Standard Times.
• Apr - Sep, Monday - Friday 9.00am - 10.00pm Saturday - Sunday 10.00am - 7.00pm
• Oct - Mar, Monday -Friday 10.00am - 11.00pm Saturday - Sunday 10.00am -8.00pm