Mid / Senior Software Engineer and Architect (Startup/Digital Retailer/Fintech) An exciting opportunity awaits a Mid / Senior Software Engineer and Architect at our client's innovative pay-as-you-go solar startup. Our client makes life better for everyday households in Africa. They build amazing tech to help bring access to energy, internet and opportunity to people who otherwise wouldn’t. Our client is a dynamic, hardworking team that values flexibility and focuses on results over office hours. They are resourceful and budget-conscious, whether they are traveling or working. They believe in resilience, self-reliance, and long-term sustainability. With our client your career growth is driven by your ambitions, from expanding your role to exploring new areas of the business. Job type: Full Time Location: Cape Town Basic Requirements 4 or more years of software engineering experience with commercially successful systems in fintech, payments, retail banking, credit, e-commerce or logistics Recent experience in architecture and technical leadership of projects within these industries Demonstrated expert knowledge and management of a mission critical, 24x7 production system Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills, to identify and troubleshoot system and integration challenges. Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical teams Experience in cloud-based systems Experience with Infrastructure-as-code, rapid and collaborative code pipelines and other DevOps principles Preferred Requirements Experience with AWS serverless products and infrastructure as code, Terraform or Cloudformation Your Mission You will report directly to the CTO, and work with him to understand key commercial problems, and architect and build new solutions for them. You will join existing projects creating smart solutions to quickly onboard key integrations with large telecommunications partners and government agencies. You will also lead juniors to grow our clients cloud adoption with healthy sustainable practices, as they build or replace key systems to improve commercial outcomes, such as a new agent portal or new data pipelines for core credit analytics. For any engineer, the mission is to: Understand the business’s primary commercial imperatives Envision the technology that will support the commercial imperatives with feedback from the in-country operations teams and sales network Design, build, test, maintain and manage robust software solutions to enable the them to achieve their jobs and ultimately the companies objective to serve customers We are looking for a candidate with rigorous and structured thought, and the discipline to deliver exceptional tech projects, but with an interest in learning business, finance and operational skills. The juniors in the team are primarily composed of young computer scientists and engineers who combine a strong aptitude for software development with astute commercial thinking and ability to lead teams of people to overcome operational challenges. #J-18808-Ljbffr