Our client leaders in the Automotive Space are currently seeking an Technical Lead / Senior Web developer Python or Java / Cloud Specialist to join their team. Role is based in Midrand with home-office rotation. This is a fixed long-term contract opportunity valid till December 2024.
The ideal candidate should have:
- 5-8 years’ experience in relevant programming language
 - Experience in automated testing
 - Web and digital project experience advantageous
 - Agile working experience advantageous
 
Role Tasks:
- Contribute to refinement of user stories (the user stories at the beginning of a development sprint might not be finally specified)
 - Clarify open points possibly making proposals and/or developing a prototype for further discussion.
 - Drive solutions in terms of architecture and standards
 - Take part in regular remote Scrum meetings. Daily, Planning, Estimation, Refinement, Review, Retro
 - Liaise with stakeholders and team members
 - Support existing solutions, DevOps
 
Technical skills include:
Required skills:
- Expert in Python (>5 years)
 - At least 5 years’ worth of experience building backend solutions
 - Architecture and Interface Design.
 - Data modelling and Database technologies
 - Event driven system design,
 - WEB services, REST
 - Authentication/Authorization, OIDC, OAuth2
 - Extensive experience in Cloud Architectures (Kubernetes, Serverless) and Cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS)
 - Experience with Container Orchestration Platforms e.g., Amazon EKS
 - Frontend experience a bonus, e.g., React SPA development
 - Excellent communication skills and team-oriented work behaviour in a distributed team
 - Experience of agile methodologies, particularly Scrum
 - Proficiency in Continuous Integration and Delivery tools (e.g., GitLab, Terraform)
 - Fit for business purpose mind-set, i.e., the solutions provided must meet the business goals
 
Added advantage:
- Experience with Data Science
 - Experience with backend frameworks like Spring, Java EE
 
Qualification’s advantage:
- AWS Certified: Developer Associate
 - AWS Certified: Solution Architect Associate
 - AWS Certified: DevOps Engineer
 
If you meet the above specifications, send your application across and we will be in contact shortly.
  
Desired Skills:
- Java Programming
 - Python
 - aws
 
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years