Boardroom Appointments
Mid / Senior Software Engineer and Architect
Architect and build mission-critical fintech payment systems using Zoho (Deluge), AWS (serverless, SQS, Step Functions), Vue, and Amplify while providing technical leadership for 24x7 production environments.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Cape Town, WC, South Africa
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 4+ years software engineering experience with commercially successful systems in fintech, payments, retail banking, credit, e-commerce or logistics
- Recent experience in architecture and technical leadership of projects within these industries
- Demonstrated expert knowledge and management of a mission-critical, 24x7 production system
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for system and integration challenges
- Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical teams
- Experience in cloud-based systems
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-code, rapid and collaborative code pipelines and DevOps principles
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS serverless products and infrastructure as code (Terraform or Cloudformation)
Full description
Candidates must be based in CT and are expected to be in office at least 50% of the time.Minimum Requirements:
- 4 or more years of software engineering experience with commercially successful systems in fintech, payments, retail banking, credit, e-commerce or logistics
- Recent experience in architecture and technical leadership of projects within these industries
- Demonstrated expert knowledge and management of a mission critical, 24x7 production system
- Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills, to identify and troubleshoot system and integration challenges.
- Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical teams
- Experience in cloud-based systems
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-code, rapid and collaborative code pipelines and other DevOps principles
- Preferred Requirements
- Experience with AWS serverless products and infrastructure as code, Terraform or Cloudformation
Tech Stack of the role:
- ERP
- Use Zoho for UI, database & CRUD
- Backend functions coded in Deluge, similar to Python
- Cloud
- AWS supporting 4 systems and growing fast
- Events processing (SQS -> MKS)
- Payment website & API's integrating with MoMo Telecoms
- Loan origination (Vue & Amplify)
- Smartphone integrations (API's and step functions for locking, data access & Messaging)
- Mobile App (new)
- Scrape data during scoring process
- Plan to build more customer services: pay, support, buy, insure, lend etc
Responsibilities:
- Understand the businesss primary commercial imperatives
- Envision the technology that will support the commercial imperatives with feedback from the in-country operations teams and sales network
- Design, build, test, maintain and manage robust software solutions to enable the them to achieve their jobs and ultimately the companies objective to serve customers
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