Job title: | Software Engineer (Scala) |
Employment type: | Full Time |
Experience: | 2 to 5 years |
Salary: | Negotiable |
Job published: | 12 October 2020 |
Job reference no: | 2336528895 |
Job Description
This position reports to the Engineering Team Lead.
Your responsibilities will include the following:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage both parcel and food delivery throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries
- Researching and defining solutions within the logistic domain
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End to end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Qualifications/Experience:
- A suitable degree or similar qualification
- Experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in a strongly typed language such as Scala, Java or C#
- Open to diversifying language skill set
- Experience with the following will be advantageous:
- Scala
- Play Framework
- Akka Actors
- React
- Postgres
- Mqtt & Kafka
- Amazon Web Services
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
The Environment:
- The company employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of the company being the leading e-commerce company in
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can
- We are short on ego and high on
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after
- We love what we do and what we are
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
- is forthright but respectful
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for the
- thinks like an owner of the business.
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING