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South Africa: Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) Remote posted by Datafin

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Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) – RemoteEngineering/Technical
Cape Town – Western Cape – South Africa, Remote

ENVIRONMENT:
A leading web hosting company is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join its team. In this role, you will tackle complex, large-scale backend challenges while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing backend software and APIs, implementing object-oriented programming using languages such as Ruby, and developing software within a Linux/Unix environment. Additionally, you will leverage containerization platforms like Docker or Kubernetes to enhance system performance and scalability.
DUTIES:
  • Solving interesting and large scale backend technical challenges
  • Being part of figuring out how they get better at what they do
  • Looking for opportunities to innovate and optimize
  • Understanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders of course)
  • Supporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team
You probably have a passion for:
  • Programming, open-source Technologies and IT in general
  • Optimal systems and simple procedures
  • Agile development and a self-organizing team environment
  • Sharing ideas and innovation
  • Solving interesting and large scale backend technical challenges
  • Being part of figuring out how they get better at what they do
  • Looking for opportunities to innovate and optimize
  • Understanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders of course)
  • Supporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team
REQUIREMENTS:
Your qualifications include:
  • BSc majoring in Computer Science will be advantageous, however, your ability to demonstrate your track record of writing quality backend software is what ultimately counts
  • A minimum of 4+ years of software development experience
  • Minimum of 2 years supporting a large scale application in an operational capacity
If your experience includes the following, it would be great:
  • Thinking like a hacker and diving into the security details of the software youve built
  • Experience with Rancher, Docker Swarm or other container orchestration platforms
  • Understanding of database design and performance tuning (MySQL, Redis, etc.)
  • Experience with DevOps on a Linux based platform
  • Experience with system administration on a Linux based platform
ATTRIBUTES:
  • Effective communication
  • Self-motivation and self-management
  • Life-Long Learning
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