Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer III, your focus will be on delivering epics for the squad through planning, designing, implementing, testing and deploying. You will be self sufficient with an understanding of ancillary services and infrastructure. This role assumes that you are able to define the correct cloud services to use, implement new libraries and identify and solve problems independently. You will have experience across multiple languages with practical experience in common architectural patterns, implementing blackbox and whitebox testing and complex integration testing frameworks. At this level you are expected to deliver independently as well as unblock and assist team members with delivery. You should feel comfortable escalating and communicating effectively. You will also be working closely with the SSO to prioritize, and understand the strategic direction of the product and help team members with planning, design and implementation.

Responsibilities

Deliver epics for the squad through planning, designing, implementing, testing and deploying; Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives; Develop code both independently and while pair programming; Write and maintain design, user and test documentation; Become familiar with technologies used on the squad; Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs; Build customer and non customer facing code; Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables; Create SQL for Tech Updates and ensure this is ready for review; Keep technically abreast of trends and advancements within area of specialization, incorporating these improvements where applicable; Review business needs, requirements, technical specifications; Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner; Mentor and give guidance to less senior staff to grow careers; Perform code reviews; Approve pull requests; Perform point releases; Maintain build- and stage stability; Research and prototype new technologies; Influence system wide architecture; Evolve architecture; Regularly review peer contributions and take part in constructive retrospectives to increase efficiency; Actively contribute to and maintain technical documentation; Follow technology trends and incorporate new promising technology as required to keep with the times; Assess, debug and resolve technical issues; Contribute to creative solutions that help make the development process more efficient - elevated ownership of application stability

Requirements

Initiative; Adaptability; Being a team player; Personal Development; Completed B.S. In Computer Science or related field or equivalent professional experience; 8+ years experience: Java 8 +, SQL, Unix shell commands, version control, JDBC, OR Tools (Hibernate, JPA), Spring MVC, HTTP/Rest protocols, build tools (Gradle/Maven), CI (Jenkins/Bamboo/etc), JVM & Garbage collection, NOSQL & Data lakes, Cloud Computing, Load balancing; Experience working with Java, Spring and related Technologies; 8+ years Software Development; Agile / Iterative processes. Kanban / Scrum; Knowledge of Relational Databases, Table design, SQL; TDD experience; Continuous Integration / Delivery methods, tooling, integrations; Experience working with Large Scale processing; Experience in monitoring, alerting and production support; Good understanding of JVM and Garbage Collection; Exposure to front end technologies; Experience Mentoring / Training teams; Experience in taking ownership off larger pieces of work; Proven track record of influencing architecture and inter-disciplinary dependencies

Nice to have

Opensource contributions are beneficial; Exposure and experience in any Google Cloud technology highly desired; Knowledge of Digital Marketing is a big plus; Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA

Benefits

Hybrid, Casual work environment; Responsible PTO policy; Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both; Training & Development; Learning the advanced partnership automation products; Medical Aid and Provident Fund; Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid; Group scheme with 10x Funds; Restricted Stock Units; 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval; Internet Allowance; Fitness club fee reimbursements