Senior Software Engineer

About the position

The Software Developer position is a critical role, responsible for guidance of the wider team and 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).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the team's technical trajectory, ensuring alignment with major technical decisions and contributing to shaping our strategic goals.
• Enable the professional growth of more junior team members, nurturing their development into exceptional professionals while leading by example in our high-trust, high-performance culture.
• Deliver high-quality code, upholding our commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Utilize a modern, yet pragmatic Tech Stack to build a highly scalable distributed system, ensuring our technological capabilities remain relevant.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning.

Requirements

• Extensive experience and/or understanding of designing, developing and testing distributed, high-volume and highly reliable software.
• Business and operational awareness, as well as experience with cloud-based infrastructure.
• Understanding of scalability, robustness, operational visibility and agility.
• Understanding of distributed systems and designing these solutions.
• Experience working on projects involving the design and implementation of scalable systems.
• Knowledge of services like AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, serverless computing, storage (EBS, S3), containers, DNS, etc. is preferred yet not a prerequisite.
• Understanding of / experience in 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Proficiency in languages used in full-stack / back-end Software Development (Python, Java, C++ etc).
• Ability to articulate language differences, implementation and the build & execution process.
• Ability to articulate the pros / cons of relevant data structures for the use of minimum memory space and execution in the shortest possible time.
• Ability to suggest possible / relevant algorithms when developing and optimizing solutions for time and space complexity.

Benefits

• Opportunities for growth and development within the Sanlam Group.
• A commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equitable workplace.