Job Openings at Badger Holdings (Pty) Ltd

What You’ll Do:

• Strategise and Execute Campaigns: Design and implement digital marketing campaigns across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and programmatic platforms.
• Drive Results: Use data and insights to continuously optimise campaign performance, enhancing ROI and meeting KPIs.
• Collaborate and Lead: Work closely with the digital team to align campaigns with business objectives, work with senior digital marketing specialists, and foster knowledge-sharing.
• Data-Driven Insights: Produce detailed campaign performance reports, turning analytics into actionable recommendations.
• Innovate: Stay ahead of industry trends, bringing fresh ideas to the table and driving continuous improvement in campaign strategies.

 What You’ll Need:

• Experience: A minimum of 3 years managing digital campaigns, including B2C products.

Skills:

• Expertise in Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and programmatic tools.
• Proficiency in analytics platforms (Google Analytics, HubSpot, etc.).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organisational ability.

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What You’ll Do

You’ll design, build, and operationalise AI across the business:

• Define and implement an AI governance framework (approval, testing, monitoring, lifecycle management)
• Integrate Azure OpenAI / OpenAI APIs with proper guardrails (PII handling, audit logging, content filtering)
• Build and scale AI pipelines for claims processing (OCR, classification, entity extraction, validation)
• Establish prompt engineering standards and reusable prompt libraries
• Create evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, latency, and cost
• Implement responsible AI practices aligned to regulatory requirements
• Optimise AI cost efficiency (token usage, caching, model selection)
• Support and enhance Contact Centre Copilot solutions
• Roll out and manage GitHub Copilot across engineering teams
• Monitor model performance in production and proactively manage drift
• Engineering Contribution (Non-Negotiable)
• Write and maintain production-grade Python code for ML pipelines
• Contribute to platform engineering and integration efforts
• Collaborate on API development and system integration
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and engineering standards
• Support modernisation of legacy systems where AI integrates into core workflows

What You Bring

• 5+ years in software engineering, with 2+ years focused on AI/ML
• Proven experience deploying and maintaining AI/ML in production
• Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI or OpenAI APIs
• Strong Python skills for building and maintaining ML pipelines
• Experience with document AI (OCR, NER, classification, form recognition)
• Understanding of LLM patterns (RAG, fine-tuning, embeddings, prompt engineering)
• Familiarity with vector databases and semantic search
• Strong engineering discipline: testing, monitoring, documentation, code quality

Education

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or a related technical field

Advantageous:

• Certifications in AI, machine learning, or cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• Equivalent practical experience building real-world AI systems in production will be considered.

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What You’ll Do

You’ll design, build, and continuously improve the developer platform and experience across the organisation:

• Implement and maintain Backstage as our internal developer portal
• Build and maintain the service catalogue (visibility, ownership, discoverability)
• Create golden path templates so new services can be created in minutes, not days
• Design and maintain software templates that enforce standards without slowing teams down
• Build self-service capabilities (environment provisioning, secrets, config management)
• Implement TechDocs so documentation lives with code and stays relevant
• Create developer productivity dashboards and track meaningful metrics
• Gather feedback and turn developer pain points into real platform improvements
• Run enablement sessions and training to drive adoption
• Engineering Contribution (Non-Negotiable)

You are an engineer first:

• Contribute to software development and platform engineering tasks, including coding, debugging, and optimisation
• Build and maintain internal tools, scripts, and services that improve developer productivity
• Support the development of APIs, services, and automation tooling
• Collaborate on production-quality code, reviews, and engineering standards
• Assist in modernising legacy systems where developer experience intersects with core engineering
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement practices

Requirements

What You Bring

• 3+ years software development experience
• Experience working on developer platforms, tooling, or internal engineering systems
• Exposure to Backstage or similar platforms (Port, Cortex, OpsLevel)
• Strong TypeScript and React skills
• Solid understanding of developer workflows and SDLC practices
• Ability to write clear, useful technical documentation
• Strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on removing friction at scale

Education

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• Equivalent hands-on experience building developer tooling or platforms will be considered

Advantageous:

• Certifications in cloud platforms, DevOps, or developer tooling (Azure preferred)

Nice to Have

• Experience building CLI tools or VS Code extensions
• Familiarity with the Backstage plugin ecosystem
• Experience measuring developer productivity (DORA metrics, developer insights)
• Training or facilitation experience
• Experience driving platform adoption across engineering teams

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What You’ll Do

You’ll own and shape the API layer of the platform:

• Define and enforce API design standards aligned with OpenAPI 3.1
• Architect and manage Azure API Management (APIM) across internal and external APIs
• Design API versioning strategies that enable evolution without breaking consumers
• Build API templates and code generators for consistency and speed
• Implement API security standards (OAuth 2.0, JWT, rate limiting, IP restrictions)
• Establish contract testing practices to prevent breaking changes
• Build and maintain the API documentation portal
• Act as the quality gate, reviewing APIs before production release
• Create mock services to enable parallel development
• Define integration patterns across systems within the Group

Engineering Contribution (Non-Negotiable)

You’re not just defining standards, you’re building:

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade APIs using C# and ASP.NET Core
• Contribute to backend engineering and platform development efforts
• Build reusable API components, templates, and frameworks
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and engineering best practices
• Support the modernisation of legacy systems into API-driven services

Requirements

What You Bring

• 5+ years experience in API development or API platform engineering
• Proven experience building and maintaining API platforms at scale
• Deep understanding of REST principles and real-world application
• Hands-on experience with Azure API Management (or similar gateways)
• Ability to design and write OpenAPI specifications from scratch
• Strong understanding of API security (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, threat modelling)
• Proficiency in C# and ASP.NET Core Web API
• Experience with API testing and contract testing tools

 Education

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

Advantageous:

• Certifications in cloud platforms, API management, or platform engineering (Azure preferred)
• Equivalent practical experience building and maintaining production APIs and distributed systems will be considered.

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What You’ll Do

You’ll design, build, and own the DevOps and CI/CD platform:

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
• Automate environment provisioning for fast, self-service development
• Integrate security scanning into pipelines (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets)
• Implement and manage GitHub Advanced Security
• Manage secrets and configuration securely (Azure Key Vault)
• Design deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, zero-downtime)
• Build automated rollback capabilities
• Maintain CI/CD pipeline standards and reusable templates
• Migrate pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions
• Maintain visibility of all pipelines and integrations

Engineering Contribution (Non-Negotiable)

• Write code to automate infrastructure, pipelines, and operational tasks
• Build and maintain scripts, tools, and reusable automation frameworks
• Collaborate with developers to resolve build, deployment, and environment issues
• Contribute to code reviews, testing, and engineering standards
• Continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability
• If it’s manual, then you automate it.
• If it breaks, then you fix it in code.

Requirements

What You Bring

• 5+ years experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or similar roles
• Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines in production environments
• Strong experience with GitHub Actions (or Azure DevOps with transition readiness)
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)
• Deep understanding of Azure services (compute, networking, security)
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, CLI tools)
• Understanding of .NET build and deployment processes
• Strong mindset around automation, reliability, and security

Education

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

Advantageous:

• Certifications in DevOps, cloud platforms, or infrastructure automation (Azure preferred)
• Equivalent practical experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud platforms will be considered.

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What You’ll Do

You will own the technical vision and architecture of the platform:

• Define and own the target architecture across the full stack (data, services, APIs, UI)
• Lead the strangler fig migration strategy, prioritising what to modernise and how
• Establish architecture patterns, domain boundaries, and engineering standards
• Make key decisions on technology, frameworks, and build vs buy
• Create and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)
• Design and implement event-driven architectures to decouple systems
• Work hands-on where needed code reviews, problem-solving, and team support.
• Translate technical decisions into clear business impact for leadership
• Mentor and guide engineers in adopting modern engineering practices

Engineering Contribution (Non-Negotiable)

This is not a PowerPoint role:

• Contribute to code reviews and architectural implementation decisions
• Support teams in building and modernising services and APIs
• Drive engineering quality, scalability, and maintainability standards
• Actively unblock teams and solve real technical challenges

Requirements

What You Bring

• 10+ years software development experience, with 5+ years in architecture roles
• Proven experience modernising legacy systems into modern architectures (in production)
• Deep expertise in .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core)
• Strong understanding of clean architecture, DDD, CQRS, and event-driven systems
• Hands-on experience with Azure (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, SQL, Event Hubs)
• Ability to engage both engineers and executives effectively
• Strong decision-making ability with a balanced, pragmatic mindset

Education

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field

Advantageous:

• Postgraduate qualifications in architecture, cloud computing, or business
• Certifications in cloud architecture or enterprise architecture (Azure preferred)
• Equivalent practical experience designing and delivering large-scale platform architectures will be considered.