Python Developer in SOUTH AFRICA

Remote Job..!! Senior Python Engineer in South Africa

Hi,

I'm excited to share that one of our clients is hiring for a Senior Python Engineer in South Africa! It's a fully remote job. Below are the job details. If you're interested, please send your CV to apply.

Title: Senior Python Engineer

Location: South Africa

Duration: Permanent, fulltime or Contract for 6-12 months with a possibility of extension

Job Type: Fully Remote

Must have experience with OKTA.

Responsibilities:

• Building and deployment of back end services communicating over a range of interfaces.
• Implementation of interfaces defined together with an Engineering Lead or Architect.
• Estimation and delivery of working code on time and to agreed standards.
• Code reviews for other team members.
• Mentoring of junior team members.
• Maintaining code standards.
• Writing tests (unit tests, BDD tests) and working with QA.
• Maintaining CICD pipelines.
• Writing of proofs of concept for new architecture, techniques and technologies
• Taking part in specification workshops where we define functional and non-functional characteristics of our systems.

Ideal Candidate:

• 5+ years of writing clean, well-designed, tested, and reusable code
• Using test driven approach to programming: TDD for unit tests and BDD for functional tests
• Use of web frameworks such as Flask, Django, node.js or Ruby on Rails
• Use of SCM i.e Git and platforms such as GitHub or Gitlab
• Understanding basic architectural patterns, when to apply them and their trade-offs
• Working with microservices communicating over a range of interfaces such as REST, gRPC and event/message based

Ideal Skillset:

• Write software using all our core languages (Python, ECMAscript, TypeScript)
• Implement interfaces based on OpenAPI
• Apply appropriate testing techniques
• Write asynchronous and parallel software
• Write scalable software
• Understand the concept of cloud based software environment and its trade offs
• Understand the ideas expressed using diagrams and schemas