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Cape Town: Senior Software Engineer (Python) (Remote) posted by Datafin

Cape Town: Senior Software Engineer (Python) (Remote) posted by Datafin

Posted on 2025-07-06 00:00:00

Employer Datafin
Category Development
Location Western Cape  / Cape Town

Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer (Python) (Remote)IT – Software Development
Cape Town – Western Cape – South Africa

ENVIRONMENT:
A leading online retailer in South Africa is seeking an Intermediate Python Developer to join their dynamic team. As a Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing high-quality, scalable software solutions within the e-commerce sector. You will have the opportunity to enhance existing systems by implementing best practices and contribute to the development of new features. The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelors degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or possess equivalent practical experience. A minimum of 5 to 10 years of experience in software development is required, along with a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
DUTIES:
  • Design and build solutions to assist the business users and improve customer experience
  • Architect and design solutions with your team
  • Develop code, making major improvements to non-functional areas
  • Develop high-quality production code for work of high complexity and scale
  • Utilize and improve functional and non-functional testing practices
  • Champion, challenge, and iterate on best practices within engineering
  • Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision trade-offs, typically system or domain-wide
  • Participate in and collaborate on architecture proposals across engineering
  • Support alignment of architecture across the organisation
  • Respond to and resolve bugs in production for systems in your division
  • Respond to alerts and support incident response within your division
  • Investigate and drive the resolution of issues that impact multiple teams
  • Support, challenge existing, and define new engineering processes and directives
  • Review and contribute fixes and content to internal documentation
  • React to technology trends, identifying risks and opportunities for your division’s technologies, systems, and domains
  • Share knowledge through blog posts, tech talks, and workshops across engineering
  • Contribute to discussions and decisions in the division
  • Challenge others to always produce work of the highest quality
  • REST and RPC API implementation and maintenance (using Python)
  • Develop and maintain automation tests
  • Liaise with various internal stakeholders to discuss project requirements, progress, etc.
REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications & Experience:
  • Bachelors degree or an Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 5 to 10 years in a software development role
  • A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
  • Experience in writing robust, efficient production code
  • Proficient in a strongly typed open source language such as Python, Java, Golang, etc
  • Exposure to RESTful APIs and web services.
  • Experience with SQL database systems
  • Experience with development in a Linux environment
Experience in the following will be advantageous:
  • Familiarity with microservices architecture
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL
  • Memcached, Redis
  • Message Brokers, Queues, and PubSub systems (e.g., Kafka and RabbitMQ)
  • Containerisation (e.g., Docker)
  • Orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
  • GitHub, Travis CI, Jenkins
  • AWS, GCP, Azure
  • JavaScript, React, jQuery
ATTRIBUTES:
  • Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, and high energy
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
  • Ability to dis-aggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
  • Solid quantitative skills
  • Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
  • Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing
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