Fresh Opportunities at Progressive Edge

Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years of experience
• Minimum of 2 years of Java development experience with Spring or Springboot
• Relevant B.Sc. or B. Eng university degree; Hons. or higher is preferable
• Good academic performance, exceptional in software development / programming courses
• Dependable, responsible and collaborative
• Supportive Team Player
• Fast learner
• Self-driven
• Self-motivated and able to demonstrate initiative
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to explain your approach and the process you follow
• Excitement about technology

Nice-to-haves:

• DevOps
• Cloud Infrastructure (Google Cloud or AWS)
• IOT
• Software Architecture

Non-Technical Skills:

• Able to work well in a team as well as individually
• Attentive to detail, and able to think creatively outside the box
• Able to accurately estimate effort on tasks, prioritise work and deliver to deadlines
• Excited about learning, pushing technical limits and finding new solutions
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills

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Duties

• Work with development teams, product managers and clients to design software solutions
• Design and implement cloud based back end solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Design and implement effective APIs (REST / GraphQL)
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Facilitate clear communications with and around the team

Requirements:

• You will need to have a university BSc or BEng degree essential and not negotiable.  An Hons degree or higher would be preferred.  Strong academic background essential
• Minimim of 6 years + in development, preferably 8+

We are looking for candidates that have experience in some or all of the following:

• Software and Architecture design
• Cloud computing using AWS or GCP
• Node.js, Python or other language used in cloud computing
• Experience with Relational and NoSQL databases
• Linux, Docker
• CI/CD (eg Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure Pipelines etc)

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Deliver code according to a product backlog
• Agile software development
• Actively contribute to the team
• Continuous self-development and expansion of skills
• Assist the technical lead with designing technical solutions
• Assist the senior software developer to mentor junior team members
• Assist with software and product support

The skills we are looking for

• Android development (Java and Kotlin).
• Deliver code according to a backlog.
• Agile software development.
• Communication skills that allow you to collaborate and explain your process, approach and motivation to various stakeholders.
• Assistance with designing technical solutions.
• Assistance with mentoring junior team members.
• Technical software and product support.
• Able to work well in a team as well as individually.
• Zoom out to the big picture and zoom in on detail.
• Estimate effort on tasks, prioritise work and deliver to deadlines but manage expectations pro-actively rather than working overtime to get the work done.
• Excited about learning, pushing technical limits and finding new solutions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A propensity to fail fast and learn fast and share both failure and learning with others.
• Prioritising learning over being right. Understanding others rather than becoming defensive.
• Understanding the value of the client as part of the team rather than “us & them”.

Required Experience

• Minimum 4 years of work experience
• Minimum of 2 years of Android experience - Java or Kotlin, but more Kotlin is better
• Either Relevant B.Sc. or B.Eng. university degree. Good academic performance, exceptional in software development/programming courses Or an additional 5 years of work experience in the absence of a degree

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Your core responsibilities include:

• Developing core back-end platforms in a mixture of both open source and custom code
• Developing domain- and customer-specific applications and platforms
• Supporting the front-end team
• Identifying application features and requirements into be abstracted to the core

Requirements:

Experience in:

• Python and Flask
• Angular
• RESTful APIs with Swagger specifications
• API security frameworks, token management and user access control, including OAuth and JWT
• Message queues with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ZeroMQ
• Building and managing Docker containers
• Database architecture, scalability and performance
• Source control systems and creating / integrating CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins
• Writing unit-tested, extendable, and maintainable code
• Working in an Agile / Scrum environment

Beneficial knowledge:

• Python web frameworks: Django, Tornado
• AWS general concepts, with specific knowledge on: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambdas, SES, SNS, CloudFront, ECS, Fargate
• SQLAlchemy and Connexions
• BPMN or similar process management concepts

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Requirements:

• 5+ years' experience with C# (or similar + excellent grasp of Computer Science principles)
• University or related Computer Science Degree/Diploma
• South African citizenship
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with Good attention to detail
• Open to and willing to give critique
• Genuinely interested in coming up with the best solution
• Effective communication skills

Advantageous:

• Web Technologies (HTML, CSS, BootStrap, LESS etc)
• Microsoft Web Stack (MVC, C#, Razor, IIS, ASP.Net etc)
• Mobile Application Development (iOS, Mono, Android, Java etc)
• High performance/scale technologies (Caching, Load Balancing, Profiling, Indexing etc)
• Relational Databases (Microsoft SQL)

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Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer
• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with experience in popular languages such as Java/ JavaScript/ Golang/ Python
• An understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, cloud native systems, the problems they attempt to solve as well as the related trade-offs to contribute to feature and service design
• Familiar with build tools including Maven, npm, Go build, Make, Scripting
• Public cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP) certification preferable
• Local Infrastructure experience (Virtualisation, *UI systems)
• Container experience
• CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) tools experience such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Proven experience with production systems and dealing with production issues
• Out of the box thinking to solve infrastructure and operational problems

Expertise:

• Configuration management tools and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling and practices
• Domain-specific languages (Chef, Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Cloud Formation, Terraform, CDK)
• Continuous integration tooling (Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD, Travis, CircleCI)
• Continuous delivery tools and patterns (GitOps, Blue/Green, Progressive Delivery)
• Systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (NewRelic, Graphite, ELK, EFK, Nagios, Ganglia, Grafana, Prometheus etc.)
• Git and various branching models
• ChatOps

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Main duties and responsibilities

Project Management

• Implementation and maintenance of effective delivery frameworks internally and with our outsourced IT service partner
• Managing the delivery through the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including client implementation of the change
• Project and BAU delivery tracking
• Professional project updates to clients
• Managing client requests through the backlog and delivery pipeline
• Ownership of the delivery of agreed priorities for the year
• Responsible for delivery relationship with our outsourced IT service partners
• Ensuring that systems, procedures, and methodologies are in place to support outstanding project delivery
• Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of delivery
• Taking accountability for project delivery performance, meeting internal and external client expectations, and driving future demand
• Analyzing third-party as well as internal processes, and creating strategies for project delivery optimization
• Performance & Quality Management
• Recommending methods of improvement and seeing that actions are implemented on time for project delivery upgrades
• Providing accurate and regular reports to management on performance of project delivery
• Building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to enable effective dialogue exchange between departments

REQUIREMENTS

Essential

• 5+ years BA / Scrum Master / Project Management / Delivery experience
• Understanding of financial markets and financial systems
• Knowledge of database query languages e.g. SQL
• Knowledge of web applications
• Exceptional client-facing skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with teams and stakeholders
• Ability to source information from the users/clients
• Ability to work under pressure, time management, provide reasonable effort estimations and to be able to multi-task across multiple projects and communicate effectively.
• Unquestionable integrity and accountability
• Knowledgeable about SDLC process
• A great team player, able to interact easily with both business and technology stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills and strong attention to detail

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We are looking for the C# Architect to assist with:

• Functional requirements
• Deployment environment
• Performance requirements
• Expected longevity of solution
• Client budget (provide choices and highlight trade-offs if needed)
• Skill set required to build vs skill set available
• Skill set required to maintain, and support vs skill set available
• Ease of future maintenance and support
• Investigation and resolution of technical challenges, guiding project team members as appropriate and doing it yourself when appropriate

You will ensure quality through:

• Code reviews in a form appropriate to project and individual team members
• Establishing and maintaining an enabling set of technical standards
• On-going refinement, revision or establishment of our development delivery processes
• Providing expert opinion on validity of project team or individual effort and time estimates
• Mentoring, or facilitating the appropriate mentoring, of juniors and team members
• Participating in performance management and recruitment processes for technical resources
• Pre-sales design and project proposals
• Participation in PR and marketing activities with relevant writing, presenting and research

Requirements:

• BSc Computer Science or similar tertiary qualification
• Strong object-oriented programming skills

Experience in:

• C#
• HTML
• JavaScript
• CSS
• WPF and WCF proven abilities
• Microsoft Certification
• Cloud experience would be preferred
• Links to Stack Overflow, GitHub and / -or Bitbucket public accounts would be advantageous

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Responsibilities:

• Assist in gathering requirements from clients and stakeholders
• Help clients to understand the value of UX by having constant communication with them. You're not working for them but with them
• Empathise with users by conducting UX research, or more often, collaborating with the dedicated UX Researcher
• Understand the underserved need that the product needs to address
• Understand the users journey through the product
• Produce relevant artefacts e.g: Job stories, User flows, Information architecture, Wireframes & Prototypes
• Low & High-fidelity design of product user interface About you

Knowledge and Skills:

• Skills in prototyping and visual design tools like Adobe XD and/or Figma
• Able to function in an Agile software development team
• Communication skills that allow you to collaborate and explain your process, approach and motivation to various stakeholders
• Able to work well in a team as well as individually
• Excited about learning, pushing creative limits and finding new solutions
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• A propensity to fail fast and learn fast and share both failure and learning with others
• Prioritising learning over being right. Understanding others rather than becoming defensive
• Demonstrated ability to learn independently

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of work experience

Education, qualification and certifications:

• Either Relevant tertiary qualification in Multimedia and/or Visual Communication and/or UX Design
• Or an additional 3 years of work experience in the absence of a degree

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Requirements:

• 5 or more years experience in web development
• Experience working in an agile team
• South African Citizenship
• Web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Image authoring, to be able to perform adjustments on an images.
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as Git/SVN
• Understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.
• Responsive web development skills

Advantageous:

• Knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, React etc.
• Adobe Photoshop, Gimp and/or Illustrator
• Sketch/Invision