| Senior Backend Engineer
Engineering · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa · Full-time
Flexible, hybrid or remote working model. You can choose to work from home or our office. |
| Role Overview
A vacancy is available for a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 5 years of experience to join our dynamic team.
You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our platform, scaling our web applications, and architecting integrations to take our solution to the next level. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Customer Success, and Operations, with a customer-centric mindset.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, build and test scalable systems and integrations with telephony and CRM platforms.
- Develop, maintain, and monitor integrations, including product metrics, data deletion, and retention.
- Manage tech debt and ensure our systems scale efficiently.
- Collaborate with other teams to deliver top-notch features aligned with customer needs.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior developers, fostering growth within the team.
- Maintain PostgreSQL databases, including schema and index optimisation and performance tweaking.
- Peer review technical specs and pull requests.
- Continuously improving and adapting complex code structures.
- Utilising AWS services to achieve business goals.
You’ll be working with the following Tech stack:
- Python
- Django / DRF
- Celery
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- AWS.
Requirements:
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in backend web development.
- In-depth expertise in Postgres and RDBMS in general
- Strong experience in building and scaling web applications.
- Proven track record of architecting scalable systems.
- Ability to architect, build, and maintain integrations.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- A collaborative mindset with a strong alignment to company values and customer-centricity.
- Utilising and maintaining unit tests and end-to-end tests.
- Experience working with message brokers / queuing systems.
Bonus / Advantageous Skills to have:
- Experience working in SaaS startups.
- Experience integrating or working with CRM and telephony (dialler) systems.
- Leadership experience, particularly in mentoring junior developers.
- Working with Kafka and stream processing systems.
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