Intermediate Software Developer

Sanlam Fintech is a newly established digital first business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent. We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth. Our culture is that of agility and constant deployment, we believe in learning fast, learning cheap and learning forward. Our aim is to provide a work environment where knowledge workers can accelerate the development of their ideas and bring innovation to market, at the same time provide compelling career and development proposition that will enable them to realize their dreams.

Position Overview

Position overview: The Software Developer position is a critical role, responsible for delivering efficient software in a high trust, high-performance environment. Comprising a diverse team of skilled, motivated and curious talent from both local and international locations, the role can be fully remote, hybrid or office based. Our relatively flat organisational structure lends itself to open communication, agility and collaboration. The role reports to a Technical Lead (who reports to the Chief Technology Officer). Key deliverables are:

• Delivery: Contribute to the team's technical trajectory, ensuring alignment with major technical decisions and strategic team goals.
• Code Excellence : Ensure the delivery of high-quality code, upholding the team’s commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Problem solving : Whether autonomously or by drawing on support from the wider team; provide solutions to new and existing challenges.
• Innovative Tech Stack : Utilize a modern yet pragmatic Tech Stack to build a highly scalable distributed system, ensuring our technological capabilities remain relevant.
• Continuous Learning : Demonstrate a genuine interest in learning and development, with a view on remaining agile and responsive to business needs.

What will you do?

Engineering / Operational Excellence

• Understanding of scalability, robustness, operational visibility and agility.
• Understanding of distributed systems and designing these solutions.
• Knowledge of services like AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS is preferred. AWS is however not a prerequisite, so knowledge / experience with any Cloud-based technologies would be useful.
• Understanding of / experience with monitoring, metrics, visibility, health, fault tolerance.
• Experience with / understanding of load balancing and health checking.
• Experience with / understanding of APIs, auth.
• Experience with / understanding of databases and persistence.
• Experience with / understanding of scalable architecture for systems implementation.

Remuneration :

• Remuneration for the position reflects its strategic importance, a high level of responsibility and the unique skill set / expertise required.

Qualification and Experience

Skills and Experience: Developers need experience and/or a robust understanding of designing, developing and testing distributed, high-volume and highly reliable software. Business and Operational awareness, alongside experience with Cloud-based infrastructure is highly desirable. Programming Languages & Coding

• Despite our language-agnostic approach, proficiency in full-stack / back-end Software Development languages (such as, but not limited to Python, Java, C++ for example) is required.
• Proficiency at reading, reviewing, understanding code.
• Understanding of implementation and the build & execution process is important: For example, strongly vs weakly typed, static vs dynamic, compiled vs interpreted.

Algorithms and Data Structures

• Ability to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution, in the shortest possible time. This includes the ability to suggest situations in which a certain data structure would be applicable for example, and why.
• Ability to suggest possible / relevant algorithms when developing and optimising solutions for time and space complexity – Including suggesting options and trade-offs, also in instances where scope increases or decreases, and solutions have to adapt.

Knowledge and Skills

Provides strategic input in building future, world class IT engineering technical capabilities. Shapes the future IT landscape and leads the engineering transformation journey in the organisation. Leads the efforts of developing engineering and management best practices, metrics and sound audit practices. Management and coaching of employees. Industry trends and market changes.

Personal Attributes

Balances stakeholders - Contributing strategically. Builds effective teams - Contributing strategically. Manages complexity - Contributing strategically. Tech savvy - Contributing strategically.

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

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

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process. #J-18808-Ljbffr