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Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for a highly talented Mid Level Python Software Engineer to join our team in Cape Town.
As a Mid- Level Software Development Engineer (Python) you will help to architect, implement, support and maintain scalable services in a heterogeneous environment. You will be able to influence both business and architectural decisions, while working on end-to-end technology solutions.
This position reports to the Platform Engineering Director.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Build systems to scale with our growth of business, leveraging new technologies and AWS Cloud services.
- Work closely with other engineers, professional services team and product managers to design the software solutions with a focus on reliability, performance and usability.
- Develop, enhance and maintain backend systems in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies, with an emphasis on Python.
- Apply and foster best software development life cycle practices bringing speed and quality to your team.
- Continuously learn and improve your knowledge and the deliverables.
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The skills we need:
- Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with creating APIs.
- Experience in developing distributed backend systems and Micro Service architecture.
- Experience with *nix and Python.
- Passion for learning new skills and appreciation to invent and simplify.
Nice to have:
- Experience with cloud service providers, specifically AWS Cloud technologies.
- Experience using GIT version control.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis)
- Experience with event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis)
- Experience with containers and orchestration (docker, ECS, Kubernetes)
Qualifications and experience:
- Computer Science Degree.
- Minimum 2 to 3 years experience
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