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Hi All, I’m currently looking for a strong Head of Advertising for one of the largest online classifieds in SA. We are looking for someone who has strong commercial acumen and who is experienced with programmatic. Experience with sell side would be a major advantage too! If this sounds exciting and you meet the requirements please send your CV to [email protected]

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Job Information
Job Reference: JO-2109-246505
Salary:
Salary per: annum
Job Duration:
Job Start Date: 2021-09-30
Job Industries: Marketing
Job Locations: South Africa
Job Types: Permanent

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Reporting to: Team Leader/ Head of Department

• Our client is recruiting 2 Agnostic Software Engineers to deliver product enhancements directly to the business within Research, Trade Management, Client Technology, and Data Technology.
• The roles will best suit full-stack Software Engineers who may have experience across different industries; although previous Financial Services or Asset Management will be an advantage.
• Our client is responsible for the delivery of systems and applications to enable the business to perform the full life cycle of investments from Portfolio Management, Trading, Risk, Performance, Research and Client Reporting all enabled via our core Data-as-a-Service strategy and dynamic Infrastructure.
• We make the decision to develop in-house where it adds most value to the business, but also blend that with vendor products where there is already a market leading product available.
• There is a preference for the candidate to have a range of data-related skills from design to data surfacing techniques.

Key Responsibilities

•  Developing to house standards; ensuring code is clean, functional and simple to support.
•  Requirement gathering, communicating with stakeholders, and documenting findings in the form of user stories.
•  Partnering with engineering leads and product owners to deliver value-adding functionality sprint by sprint.
•  Working in a quick-to-market proof-of-concept manner to engage stakeholders and focus on high-quality deliverables.
•  Utilising Test Driven Development to maintain high-quality products.
•  Working in a collaborative manner across teams.
•  Embracing DevOps techniques.

Risk & Compliance Responsibilities

•  Adhering to the Code of Ethics and related policies, including personal account dealing, gifts, market abuse, etc.
•  Ensuring Compliance training, declarations, and relevant forms are completed on a timely basis.
•  Ensuring that firm and client data and property, including IT data, are properly protected.
•  Reporting any possible and actual breaches, errors, complaints or conduct issues.
•  Reporting any suspicion that a client, investor, or employee may be involved in money laundering, fraud or other crime such as market abuse.

Candidate Requirements – Technical Knowledge and Experience:

•  A BSc or other relevant degree
•  Minimum of 5 years working with object-orientated programming languages such as C#, Java and /or Python.
•  Preference for experience in Financial Services / Asset Management
•  Experience working with REST APIs and GraphQL.
•  Experience implementing software within an automated test-driven development environment.
•  SQL is essential – NoSQL, Data Lake, EDM advantageous.
•  Source control via Git essential.
•  UI/UX skills would be a useful addition, though not essential for data-focused roles.
•  Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS and Azure desirable.
•  Experiencing building data integration solutions using different on-premise and cloud-based technologies (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Functions).

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Purpose of the Position:

• To build and maintain the most dynamic, scalable, maintainable, and high-performing backend applications using the latest technologies and frameworks to solve online streaming problems for our customers.

System Development

•  Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
•  Develop backend applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
•  Develop, test, debug and maintain application code.
•  Develop, update and maintain technical documentation.
•  Integrate existing as well as new applications
•  Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
•  Write clean code with tests to develop functional backend applications in line with industry best practices and principles.
•  Integrate to application monitoring tool to be able to troubleshoot and debug applications.
•  Continuously review and improve application performance.
•  Support and improve legacy applications.
•  Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
•  Gather and address technical and design requirements.
•  Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
•  Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features.
•  Follow emerging technologies

Experience

•  A minimum of 5 years’ experience in software engineering
•  You have exceptional knowledge of Webservice, C#, Java, JSON, REST, WCF
•  Good experience working on the spring framework
•  Good MVC knowledge
•  Tomcat, Apache
•  CI/CD knowledge
•  Experience with the likes of Jenkins, Selenium, Maven, JBehave, Puppet
•  Test-Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
•  Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous.
•  RDBMS experience (MySQL, MSSQL)
•  NoSQL knowledge would be a definite advantage (MongoDB, Neo4J)
•  You also have previous exposure to full life cycle systems development
•  You also have an understanding of XML data-driven applications and object-orientated programming
•  Good understanding of Web Servers, IIS, and Web Site setup, and configuration
• Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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Purpose of the Position:

•  To create and maintain mobile apps that are compelling and also which enables our users to consume our world-class content through latest available mobile technologies.

Key Performance Objectives Tasks

Development

•  Review designs created by designers; ask any necessary clarifying questions before starting on work.
•  Write code to implement those visual elements into various mobile applications.
•  Create prototypes, mockups, and staging apps for review and feedback
•  Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support)
•  Produce fully functional mobile applications writing clean code
•  Gather specific requirements and suggest solutions
•  Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions
•  Troubleshoot and debug to optimize performance
•  Liaise with Product development team to plan new features
•  Ensure new and legacy applications meet quality standards
•  Research and suggest new mobile products, applications and protocols
•  Stay up-to-date with new technology trends
•  Effectively communicate with your peers on all levels
•  Give detailed explanations and argue the pros and cons of your choices

Qualifications

•  A Degree in IT or Computer Science

Experience Required

•  You have a University Degree in Computer Studies or suitable equivalent
•  You have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in mobile app development
•  You have exceptional knowledge of Swift (iOS), Java (Android), JSON, SOAP and REST Web Services
•  Knowledge of MVC architecture
•  Knowledge of Reactive Programming (ReactiveX or Rx) would be a great advantage.
•  Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the Apple App Store or the Android Play Store
•  Solid understanding of Agile methodologies. SCRUM experience would be advantageous.
•  You also have an understanding of object oriented programming
•  You have experience in development practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment
•  Excellent analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
•  Knowledge of Java backend development would be an advantage
•  Eager to learn new technologies and excited by change

Technical Competencies

•  Customer Oriented
•  Architectural Design
•  Application Development
•  Programming
•  Risk Management