Software engineer jobs in South Africa

A U.S.-based company that is revolutionizing the power, operation, and maintenance of the world's cooling systems to produce major financial and climatic impact, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer. The engineer will play a key role in the conception, execution, and delivery of features for amazing products on a large scale. The company is making a major financial and climatic effect by revolutionizing the power, operation, and maintenance of the world's cooling systems through the use of software and automation. This is an amazing opportunity for candidates who are eager to work in a dynamic environment and build a lucrative career. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Directly aid in resolving the most difficult technical problems they encounter, which are extraordinarily diverse and unique at this nexus of mission-critical hardware, cloud-native apps, predictive maintenance, and energy management
• Build, improve, and maintain an ecosystem of software services and APIs designed to manage a fleet of flexible, intelligent, and resilient assets from the cloud to the IoT edge
• Closely collaborate with hardware, controls, modeling, and data science team members to solve real-world engineering challenges
• Engineer reliability and scale into our upcoming multi-tenant microservices stack, moving us from handfuls to thousands of customer sites
• Improve internal tooling and documentation to make the development process more accessible to new engineers
• Effectively navigate application deployment in a cloud-based environment
• Provide guidance, pairing, and mentorship to our software engineers to support their growth and vastly improve our team productivity
• Make insightful contributions to regular code reviews with the team to facilitate quality control and allow team members to exchange ideas
• Reduce tech debt by both addressing shortcuts in existing code and minimizing the creation of new shortcuts in feature development
• Enable an efficient, rapid development process that is streamlined, repeatable, and accessible to new developers
• Demonstrate extensive Agile experience by scoping and efficiently executing tasks

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer 
• 5+ years developing professional-grade software via professional experiences, personal projects, coding communities, etc.
• Excellent software design instinct; you should be comfortable working in multiple paradigms, particularly object-oriented and functional patterns
• Motivated to contribute at all levels, from strategy and design to coding, testing, troubleshooting, and operation, to a wide variety of software projects, including mission-critical commercial/industrial fleet control that employs IoT, ML, industrial control, creative data analysis, and internal/external stakeholder interfaces
• Ability to learn new technologies and development methodologies rapidly
• Must be an enthusiastic self-starter who can work with minimal supervision and generates innovative solutions to tough problems
• Be passionate about technology innovation, technical management, product development, and commercial/industrial SaaS
• Demonstrable experience working with Python and Docker (containers, compose, orchestration, etc.)
• Extensive experience with Linux/Bash 
• Solid understanding of application development for microservices architecture
• Familiarity with REST API design and documentation
• Prior experience with Python unit and functional testing frameworks
• Prior development experience with Kubernetes
• Some understanding of AWS application development and troubleshooting
• Prior experience with Testing frameworks (TDD)
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows (CircleCI, etc) and Graph databases (neo4j, etc)
• Some understanding of Databases/storage: Timeseries (influxdb), noSQL (mongoDB, etc), object storage (S3)
• Nice to have some GraphQL design and documentation experience
• Some Kubernetes management experience is desirable
• Prior experience of AWS application development with a focus on security is nice to have
• Other AWS Well-Architected Pillars like operational excellence, reliability, efficiency, and cost is preferred
• Familairity with Web service software development like profiling & refactoring (Python) is desirable
• Solid understanding of AWS IoT frameworks (IoT Core) is nice to have
• Prior experience with Data processing, modeling, and analytics tools (Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, SageMaker, Grafana, Jupyter notebooks) is preferred but not required
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken

A U.S.-based company that is having a huge financial and environmental impact by revolutionizing the way cooling systems are powered, run, and maintained worldwide, is looking for a Back-End Developer. The developer will play a significant role in the conception, execution, and delivery of new features. The company is transforming the power, operation, and maintenance of the world's cooling systems through the use of software and automation, with the goal of having a major financial and climate impact. This is an amazing opportunity for candidates who are eager to work with a team of veterans and build a lucrative career for themselves.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build, improve, and maintain an ecosystem of software services and APIs designed to manage a fleet of flexible, intelligent, and resilient assets from the cloud to the edge
• Closely collaborate with hardware, controls, modeling, and data science team members to solve real-world engineering challenges
• Improve internal tooling and documentation to make the development process more accessible to new engineers
• Help them directly resolve the most difficult technical problems they encounter, which are remarkably distinct and diversified at this nexus of mission-critical hardware, cloud-native apps, predictive maintenance, and energy management
• Effectively navigate application deployment in a cloud-based environment
• Make insightful contributions to regular code reviews with the team to facilitate quality control and allow team members to exchange ideas
• Reduce tech debt by both addressing shortcuts in existing code and minimizing the creation of new shortcuts in feature development
• Hone your craft as you collaborate with an exceptionally talented, incredibly motivated team

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 2+ years of relevant experience developing professional-grade software via professional experiences or equivalent
• Prolific experience working with Python, Docker (containers, compose, orchestration, etc.), Linux / bash, Python unit, and functional testing frameworks
• Excellent software design instinct; you should be comfortable working in multiple paradigms, particularly object-oriented and functional patterns
• Motivated to contribute at all levels, from strategy and design to coding, testing, troubleshooting, and operation, to a wide variety of software projects, including mission-critical commercial/industrial fleet control that employs IoT, ML, industrial control, creative data analysis, and internal/external stakeholder interfaces.
• Passionate about technology innovation, technical management, product development, commercial/industrial SaaS, and making a positive impact on climate change
• Extensive experience developing applications using microservices architecture
• Demonstrable experience developing applications in AWS
• Prolific experience with REST API design and documentation
• Prior experience using CI/CD (CircleCI, etc)
• In-depth knowledge of Databases/storage: Timeseries (influxdb), NoSQL (MongoDB, etc), object storage (S3), Graph databases (neo4j, etc)
• Some solid understanding of GraphQL design and documentation is desirable
• Prior experience with Kubernetes is preferred
• Some AWS application development with a focus on security is nice to have
• Other AWS Well-Architected Pillars: operational excellence, reliability, efficiency, cost is desirable
• Prior experience with Web service software development, profiling, and refactoring is nice to have
• Solid understanding of AWS IoT frameworks (IoT Core) is experience
• Extensive Data processing, modeling, and analytics tools (Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, SageMaker, Grafana, Jupyter notebooks) is nice to have
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written