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Job description

We’re on a mission to help people navigate their way to financial freedom one step at a time.

Indie looks, feels and works like a startup, but has the backing and expertise of a leading South African insurance and investment giant - Sanlam. The Indie team is full of creative, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. We’re building a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to find purpose in their work. If that sounds like you, we might be just the right fit.

We're looking for a Back End Engineer who will be focused on building the API driven backend for our core systems. 

Job requirements

Role and Responsibilities

• Be part of the team working and building on our core insurance platform
• Expand on our existing NodeJS-driven APIs and create new ones as our product suite and third-party integrations expand.
• Help decide and plan which features we will build, and how they are architected and implemented.
• You will work closely with your team, which includes other software engineers, QA’s, product managers, our designers as well as members of the broader Sanlam Indie team.
• Testing your work, with as much automation as is useful.
• Making sure the code you’ve created can work in an AWS (containerised) environment.

Our Ideal Candidate

The Indie team is full of smart, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. If you’re creative, professional and kind, we’d love to hear from you. We need passionate and curious people like you to help us make our vision a reality.

• You are proficient in JavaScript, Node and have some experience in front-end frameworks like React
• You have the ability to work on your own, sometimes spearheading a new direction with minimal guidance
• Strong understanding of development standards, patterns and practices
• Experience deploying apps in AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
• Knowledgeable and enthusiastic about writing well-tested applications
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and Web Services
• A passion for learning, and for sharing what you learn.

What do we mean by a senior developer?

• You can handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
• You lead others, or others look to you for guidance.
• You can self manage your projects
• The code you write is written with maintainability, simplicity and scalability in mind

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Job description

We’re on a mission to help people navigate their way to financial freedom one step at a time.

Indie looks, feels and works like a startup, but has the backing and expertise of a leading South African insurance and investment giant - Sanlam. The Indie team is full of creative, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. We’re building a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to find purpose in their work. If that sounds like you, we might be just the right fit.

Our products are growing in complexity and the role of our QA team is becoming critical to our success.

Job requirements

Role and Responsibilities

• Working closely with our QA lead to design, maintain, and execute test cases
• Define and communicate corrective actions for failed tests
• Review system and feature requirements and apply best testing best practices
• Participate in functional and technical design sessions to ensure QA is part of the design considerations
• Document and report on testing activities
• Interact with the product, actuarial and operations team to resolve issues that arise during planning, testing and other product phases.
• Test planning and test progress reporting (including the management of all errors during the testing phase).
• Analysis and resolution of staging and production systems and values errors
• Assist with testing automation across multiple platforms
• Assist with financial impact testing of our underwriting and policy administration systems

Our Ideal Candidate

If you love working in an environment where you’re given a lot of responsibility and freedom you’ll love Indie.

• Minimum 3-5 years QA and software testing experience
• ISTQB Certified (minimum Foundation level) or similar
• Experience in web and mobile testing
• Experience with test automation frameworks desirable
• Experience with our underlying technology stack would be an advantage (Node.js & React.js)
• A fast learner, with a passion for keeping track of the details that matter
• A creative problem solver
• Ability to communicate well with both technical and non-technical staff
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Experience with using test management or bug management tools
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.

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Job description

We’re on a mission to help people navigate their way to financial freedom one step at a time.

Indie looks, feels and works like a startup, but has the backing and expertise of a leading South African insurance and investment giant - Sanlam. The Indie team is full of creative, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. We’re building a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to find purpose in their work. If that sounds like you, we might be just the right fit.

We are looking for a full stack javascript developer to work on both our front end React applications and our NodeJS API’s.

Job requirements

Role and Responsibilities

• Be part of the team that is focused primarily on the acquisition and onboarding of new clients. 
• Expand on our existing NodeJS-driven APIs and create new ones as our product suite and third-party integrations expand.
• Help decide and plan which features we will build, and how they are architected and implemented.
• You will work closely with your team, which includes other software engineers, QA’s, product managers, our designers as well as members of the broader Sanlam Indie team.
• Testing your work, with as much automation as is useful.
• Making sure the code you’ve created can work in an AWS (containerised) environment.

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are highly proficient in JavaScript, Node, CSS, HTML and have extensive experience in front-end frameworks like React 
• You have the ability to work on your own, sometimes spearheading a new direction with minimal guidance
• You’re familiar with style guides, pattern libraries & design systems and writing modular, reusable code.
• You’re a thinker and can contribute to problem-solving design-oriented user experience issues.
• You have experience writing tests for JSON APIs
• You have experience in helping other developers improve the quality of their output and technical solutions.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and Web Services

What do we mean by a senior developer?

• You can handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
• You lead others, or others look to you for guidance.
• You can self manage your projects
• The code you write is written with maintainability, simplicity and scalability in mind

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Job description

We’re on a mission to help people navigate their way to financial freedom one step at a time.

The Indie team is full of creative, collaborative people who think big, execute quickly and don’t take themselves too seriously. We’re building a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to find purpose in their work. If that sounds like you, we might be just the right fit.

As a part of our product team, you’ll get to focus on building products and experiences in an environment where you’re given responsibility and freedom to do great work.

Job requirements

The Role

• You will be primarily responsible for our acquisition products and processes which include our website, lead generation tools, our Leads API and leads management tools and our distribution partnerships.
• You and our acquisition product team will work closely with our marketing and distribution teams to generate and manage the acquisition of new customers through multiple channels including partners, lead providers and digital marketing.
• You will need to balance improving the reliability and effectiveness of the existing products and systems as well as working on new ideas to grow the Indie business.
• You will work closely with our other product managers to help build out our product vision. 

Responsibilities 

• Play an active role in defining the future product and business growth of Indie.
• Own and drive the execution of your team's product roadmap with both internal and external teams.
• Delve deep into the requirements of our products and do the hard work to document and communicate to your team what is needed to fulfil our product vision.
• Understand the requirements and needs of customers, partners and lead providers to ensure we are building the right things.
• Work extensively with external partners for systems and process integrations.
• Contribute to conversations around deadlines and engineering solutions.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A diploma/degree
• Domain knowledge of insurance and lead generation 
• Experience in marketing campaign management a bonus
• A passion for writing and effective communication
• Experience with making complex product requirements digestible and actionable
• A fast learner, with a passion for keeping track of the details that matter
• Proven ability to independently manage multiple workstreams
• A willingness to extend yourself and assist other team members
• A natural ability to empathise, listen and understand complex situations
• Comfortable with using technology; learning how to use new apps, software and tools is something you enjoy