Technology Domain Specialist - Junior
Job in
Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa
Listed on 2026-01-26
Listing for:
Boardroom Appointments
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-26
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Software Engineer, DevOps, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
About the job Technology Domain Specialist - Junior
Contract position
- B-Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
- Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku
- Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes
- Required experience in REST API development
- Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework
- .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.
JS, Nuxt.
JS - Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ
- Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker
- Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & Data Dog
- Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
- Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems
- Experience working within an agile development environment
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team
- Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects
- This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required
Nice-to-have
Skills:
- Experience using Node.js tools
- Experience with backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
- Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest)
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
- Experience with Sonar Cloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc)
- Experience with Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
- Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
- Experience with Datadog
- Experience with AWS services
- Experience using Terrafrom
Responsibilities:
- We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large- scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability.
- Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the company's software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process.
- The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.
- The role requires ownership, logical thinking, and estimation of your own work, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimizations.
- The candidate will partner with key stakeholders across the business including the Backend Software Engineers,
- Product Management, Infrastructure/Dev Ops and Security to advance the product roadmap. They will need to Seek constant feedback from different users and data to help the team to prioritize and iterate on solutions.
- Be involved in mentoring less experienced software engineers in the team
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