Intermediate Software Engineer

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Employment Type

Fixed Term Position

Experience

Minimum 3 years of relevant software development experience
Minimum 1 year of AWS cloud based system experience

Location/Commitments

Hybrid, with Head Office in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Job Specification

Join our creative team of software engineers, product managers, UX designers & researchers, software architects, software developers and QA analysts & engineers dedicated to delivering software that delivers value to our clients and engaging experiences to users.

Flutter

Python / Django

Graph QL

AWS

iOS

Angular

Flutter

Python / Django

Graph QL

AWS

iOS

Angular

About Polymorph

Polymorph builds (cloud) software that grows our clients’ businesses. Our work covers a variety of industries and a range of apps and IoT software projects. Our clients include startups, scale-ups and enterprises that need brand new cloud software or upgrade or replace existing systems.

Description

As an intermediate backend software engineer, it will be your job to develop software-based on architectural, UX and UI design specifications and other acceptance criteria. We believe that as a software engineer, you add the most value when you are empowered to provide input into the business case for the software as well as the UX and UI designs in order to get to the most optimal solution. Your job is not just to deliver code. This is a fixed-term employee position, with the possibility of converting to a permanent role.

Soft Skills Required

#Communication skills

#Work well in a team

#Work well individually

#Pushing technical limits

#Excited about learning

Responsibilities

Design and deliver code according to a product backlog
Agile software development
Technical leadership of a small development team
Provide input on UX and UI designs to optimise development efforts
Give architectural advice where required
Actively contribute to the entire project team of product manager, UX practitioner(s), software developers and QA people
Continuous self-development and expansion of skills
Mentor junior team members
Lead software and product support for live production versions while development is ongoing
Communicate technical needs and risks effectively outside of the team
Be familiar with devops and infrastructure deployment
Write effective documentation for architecture and infrastructure
Assist PMs with customer expectation management

Skills

Firstly, you need the skills to take on the responsibilities specified above. Our teams generally use the following technologies – you will need to have some depth of experience in at least some of them:

Frontend

Flutter and Dart for mobile development

Angular development

Backend

SQL Knowledge

Typescript experience

Advantageous

AWS CDK knowledge, including Route53, CloudFront, S3, ApiGateway, AppSync, Cognito, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, etc

Automated deployment infrastructure (Github Actions, CodeMagic)

GraphQL integration

PostgreSQL knowledge

Prisma ORM Knowledge

And these equally important skills; the better you can match these, the easier it will be for you to add value at Polymorph:

Communication skills that allow you to collaborate and explain your process, approach and motivation to various stakeholders, including technical and non-technical people

Able to work well in a team as well as individually

Excited about learning, pushing technical limits and finding new solutions

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

A propensity to fail fast and learn fast and share both failure and learning with others

Prioritising learning over being right. Understanding others rather than becoming defensive

Understanding the value of the client as part of the team rather than “us & them”

Qualifications

Relevant B.SC or B.Eng University degree

Nice to have

If you tick all the required boxes, the following things will give you an edge:

If you’ve started your own business before (it does not matter whether it worked out or not)
If you’ve built and released something of your own Active contributions to open source projects
A preference for a variety of work and ‘horizontal’ training over deep specialist skills.

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