Software Engineer (Scala) (CH569)

Capital H Staffing and Advisory Solutions

Cape Town, South Africa, Western Cape, ZA

9h ago

Ref : CH569

Our client, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer to join their team in Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us.

We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the group’s delivery network as well as the unique challenges that come with logistics and scale.

We make extensive use of functional programming within the team using the Scala language. The main focus of the team is to migrate the delivery platform from PHP to Scala.

We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow the event driven architecture as well as utilize a graph database to model our delivery network.

We are currently working through unique problems in the logistics space and are actively researching the usage of the actor model design pattern and graph traversal optimization.

This position reports to the Software Development Manager.

Your responsibilities will include :

Developing and optimising 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

Comfortable with change

Problem-solver

Solutions-orientated

Willing to learn as well as teach others

Our Tech Stack :

Scala

Play Framework

Postgres

Mqtt & Kafka

Amazon Web Services

Graphite and Grafana

Qualifications / Experience :

Experience in writing robust, efficient production code

Experience with SQL database systems

Experience with development in a Linux environment

A suitable degree or similar qualification

Proficient in a strongly typed language such as Scala, Java or C#

Open to diversifying language skill set

The Environment :

Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition the company being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.

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 improve.

We are short on ego and high on output.

We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.

We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ people 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-commerceand delivering a world-class customer experience

is entrepreneurial, thrives under changeand 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 company

thinks like an ownerof the business.

is smart, has integrity and is hardworking

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