Senior Software Engineer - Cape Town - Sanlam

    Sanlam
    Sanlam Cape Town

    1 week ago

    Sanlam background
    Description

    Sanlam Fintech is a digital-first business within the Sanlam Group, on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions across Africa. We pioneer inclusive financial confidence to bridge generational wealth gaps. Our culture emphasizes agility and deployment, learning fast, cheap, and forward. We provide a work environment where knowledge workers can develop their ideas and bring innovation to market.

    Position Overview

    The Software Developer role is critical, guiding the team and delivering efficient software in a high-trust, high-performance environment. The team consists of skilled, motivated, and curious talent from diverse locations. This role can be fully remote, hybrid, or office-based, with an open organizational structure promoting communication, agility, and collaboration. The Technical Lead oversees this position, reporting to the Chief Technology Officer.

    1. Strategic Delivery: Contribute to the team's technical trajectory, ensuring alignment with major decisions and shaping strategic goals.
    2. Mentorship and Leadership: Enable junior team members' growth, nurturing their development into exceptional professionals while leading by example in our high-trust culture.
    3. Code Excellence: Deliver high-quality code, upholding excellence and customer satisfaction.
    4. Innovative Tech Stack: Utilize a modern tech stack to build scalable distributed systems, ensuring technological capabilities remain relevant.
    5. Continuous Learning: Promote a culture of continuous learning.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Experience or interest in mentorship, teamwork, and collaboration.
    • Senior Developers require extensive experience in designing, developing, and testing distributed software, with cloud-based infrastructure awareness.

    Engineering & Operational Excellence

    • Understanding of scalability, robustness, operational visibility, and agility.
    • Distributed systems design and solution expertise.
    • Experience working on projects involving scalable system design and implementation.
    • Knowledge of AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS, etc., is preferred but not required. Relevant Cloud-based technology experience is beneficial.
    • Monitoring, metrics, visibility, health, fault tolerance understanding or experience.
    • Load balancing and health checking experience or understanding.
    • APIs and auth experience or understanding.
    • Databases and persistence experience or understanding.
    • Scalable architecture for system implementation understanding or experience.

    Qualification and Experience

    Senior Developers require extensive experience in designing, developing, and testing distributed software, with cloud-based infrastructure awareness.

    Programming Languages & Coding

    • Proficiency in languages used in full-stack/back-end software development (e.g., Python, Java, C++).
    • Reading, reviewing, and understanding code proficiency.
    • Ability to articulate language differences, implementation, and build/executions: strongly vs weakly typed, static vs dynamic, compiled vs interpreted.

    Data Structures, Algorithms & Algorithmic Problem Solving

    • Ability to articulate pros/cons of relevant data structures for minimum memory space and execution time. Situations applicable and why.
    • Suggesting possible/relevant algorithms for time and space complexity when developing and optimizing solutions. Discuss options and trade-offs; adapting to increased scope.

    Requirements for Success

    The Sanlam Group prioritizes transformation and diversity. We aim for a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace, believing these components ensure a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered during the selection process.

    Knowledge and Skills

    • IT Strategic Planning
    • Trend Analysis
    • Business Knowledge
    • Relationship Management
    • Resource planning and risk management

    Personal Attributes

    • Organisational savvy - Contributing strategically
    • Balances stakeholders - Contributing strategically
    • Attracts top talent - Contributing strategically
    • Drives vision and purpose - Contributing strategically

    Career Development

    We focus on building lasting relationships with employees, helping them realize their worth and achieve great things through career and personal development opportunities within our five business clusters: Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, MiWay, and the Group Office.

    Core Competencies

    • Cultivates innovation - Contributing strategically
    • Customer focus - Contributing strategically
    • Drives results - Contributing strategically
    • Collaborates - Contributing strategically
    • Being resilient - Contributing strategically
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