Job Opportunities at Kurtosys Systems

THE OPPORTUNITY:

• Solve challenging and interesting engineering problems.
• Write code using some of the latest technologies and cloud services.
• Collaborate with fellow developers and teams via code reviews and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Provide guidance on architecture and create technical specifications.
• Review architecture and technical designs.
• Manage and mentor software developers of different skill levels.
• Empower and enable team members to complete work independently.
• Identify and implement software development process improvements.
• Introduce and encourages technical innovation.

THE NON-NEGOTIABLES:

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
• Software development experience inJavaScript, TypeScript or other languages such as C#, and Java.
• Experience building web sites and web services.
• Comfortable writing SQL statements and using SQL databases.
• Experience using unit and integration tests.
• Knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure services.
• Promote good software development practices such as:
• Collaboration and knowledge sharing (especially around gathering and understanding requirements, and designing solutions).
• Solution design.
• Code quality, in terms of maintainability, performance, scaling, security, test coverage, documentation (both technical and user facing help)
• Focus on delivery, the team meeting commitments, and communicating progress or impact on delivery.
• Manage technical debt in a balanced way.

TECH STACK:

• NodeJS
• React
• Cloudflare CDN including caching, security features and worker functions.
• AWS including Lambda, ECS Fargate, S3.
• Docker
• MySql

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THE OPPORTUNITY:

• The Site Reliability Engineering team is focused on improving the reliability of the Kurtosys App platform. We are looking for experienced software engineers who enjoy working on technical challenges, embrace changes, advocate automation and providing positive experience to customers. This position offers the opportunity to become proficient in the entire platform architecture, associated technologies (see below) and operations. Our architecture uses AWS managed services, is API driven, and is predominantly written in Node.js.

WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO:

• Measure and identify deficiencies in the system pro-actively. Make proposals for overcoming such deficiencies and see through to implementation of solutions.
• Work within various engineering teams to assist with platform feature where when extra slack is needed.
• Work with various technology teams to improve the centralised log management system. Configure the system with reports and dashboards for regular monitoring of services.
• Assist with P1 incident resolution (business hours only). Co-ordinate communication and troubleshooting tasks between support and engineering teams.
• Conduct blame-free post P1 incident reviews. Document findings and follow up on action based on learnings.

NON-NEGOTIABLES:

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
• Software development experience in JavaScript or other languages such as C# or Java.
• Experience in writing SQL statements and using RDBMS databases.
• Some understanding of modern cloud infrastructure services.

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience in building web applications, web services and back end features.
• Experience in writing unit and integration tests.
• Experience in using build and deployment tools.
• Knowledge of CDN’s including caching, security features and edge computing, ideally with Cloudflare
• AWS services including Lambda, ECS Fargate, EC2, RDS, S3, Cloudwatch.