Mr D - Senior Python Engineer at takealot.com

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: 

• Build scalable software systems supporting our growing business and customers.
• Develop, enhance and maintain backend systems in a heterogeneous environment.
• Implement reliable and usable technical solutions and deliver code to production.
• Work closely with other engineers, professional services teams and product managers.
• Add value to the team and business.
• Apply and foster best software development life cycle practices.
• Continuously learn and improve your knowledge and the deliverables.

Skills we need:

• Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs.
• Experience in developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures.
• Hands on experience with *nix and Python.
• Experience with event-driven architecture , relational & non-relational datastores, containerization and cloud service providers.
• Passion for learning new skills and appreciation to invent and simplify

Nice to have experience:

• AWS Cloud technologies.
• GIT version control.
• PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis.
• Kafka.
• Docker, Kubernetes

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field or related experience. 
• Minimum of 4 years of Software Development experience is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years of Software Development experience.