You will work with a dynamic and diverse team to understand and translate business / user requirements, develop robust software and create business intelligence reports, all with a strong focus on world-class user experiences for both customers and colleagues. We currently have offices in Cape Town and Seattle (USA).
 
Role responsibilities:

• Maintaining and developing our custom-developed core application to support business processes and goals
• Ensuring security, robustness and scalability are built into the application using development best practices
• Integrating this application with other off-the-shelf and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) applications
• Running the growing development team with agile development methodologies.
• Investigating and fixing incidents and issues raised by users across the 3X4 application ecosystem

 
Technology skills required (current stack):
 

• LAMP stack running on AWS EC2 instance (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP). (Database on AWS Aurora.)
  • Uses AWS AMI (Amazon Machine Images) for deployment/autoscaling
• Certain scheduled jobs and integrations are utilizing AWS serverless technologies:
  • AWS Glue for ETL/regenerating web pages
  • AWS Simple Queue Service for messaging

• We use big data technology (spark) to process and store data files, and AWS Athena to read them.

• Languages:
  • PHP (symphony, document frameworks)
  • Javascript (Angular)
  • Python
  • MySQL
• Other tech familiarity:
  • Git
  • AWS VPCs, Cognito, S3, Lambdas
  • AWS Quicksight (reports/dashboarding)
  • RESTful Services
  • Selenium for integration testing
• Other skills:
  • Application Security
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies
  • Software application architecture
  • Test Driven Development
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment