Overview
Join Yassir as a Staff Back-End Engineer (Node.js) in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
You will help drive backend standards across the consumer domain, mentor engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain features for the domain applications
- Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Help domain team members with technical blockers and support their growth
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency
- Participate in architecture and design discussions
- Participate in building the technical roadmap
- Conduct technical interviews
- Help improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Owner of Projects
- Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality
- Draft and submit intellectual property
- Research and assess current technologies
- Develop and execute complex, multi-tier distributed software search applications
- Create technical and domain expertise and apply to products and problems
- Assess and write code to improve or extend the application
- Manage and assist current software applications
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring
Experience and Qualifications
- At least 10 years of backend engineering experience with Node.js
- Strong foundation in programming fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem solving mindset and a collaborative attitude
- Solid understanding of core engineering concepts
- Extensive experience with Git in a team environment
- Experience writing testable code and unit tests
- Experience in a fast-growing startup in the on-demand services space is a plus
- Deep knowledge of React and Node.js, with product development experience
- Experience using modern JavaScript and tooling in a full-stack setting
- Data-driven approach with experience in A/B testing
Benefits and Context
- Attractive salary and potential equity stake
- Subsidized public transit pass
- Opportunities to influence company culture
- Chance to work with renowned investors and build something meaningful
- High-learning environment with ownership and guidance
- Make an impact by helping bring affordable financial and on-demand services to millions
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