Jellyfish are looking for a Software Engineering Director to work with our team in Cape Town. Jellyfish works with some amazing clients and as an Engineer, you get to experience a wide variety of project work from working on multi-tenanted SaaS platforms & complex data-driven web apps.
Responsibilities
- Work with a development team to deliver exceptional, multi-browser/device compatible SaaS platforms and applications
- Engage with team in sprint ceremonies, estimate, plan and deploy production ready sprint deliverables
- Work efficiently to tight deadlines, both independently and as part of a team
- Maintain a proactive attitude to problem-solving and an understanding of the role of development in a creative environment
- Joining in the team discussions on processes, tools and best practices
- Advise on new technologies and ensure Jellyfish are always evolving
- Coach and mentor junior team members
What youll need
- Strong knowledge and significant previous experience in a lead engineer role, with substantial experience and application of:
- Excellent knowledge of PHP and frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony
- Strong understanding of FE frameworks such as react, or angular.
- Strong understanding of modern application architectures - microservices, event driven, serveless.
- Strong experience of unit testing
- Excellent knowledge of integrating with restful APIs, internal & 3rd party.
- Experience leading and mentoring teams of developers and being able to accurately scope and investigate new work.
- The ability to proactively improve the development environment or process in their day-to-day duties
- Github version control
- Strong Docker experience
- Strong understanding of different database technologies.
- AWS or GCP cloud certifications or very strong cloud knowledge advantageous
- Strong verbal and communication skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Self-motivated with a sense of ownership
- Flexible, versatile and copes well under pressure
- Maintain a good standard of coding and adhere to the same conventions as the rest of the team
Jellyfish will give preference to Employment Equity candidates in accordance with the companys Employment Equity Plan and its Affirmative Action measures.
Equal Opportunity Employer:Jellyfish is committed to making adjustments in our recruitment process to enable you to demonstrate your full potential. Should you require reasonable accommodation, please fill out the formhere.
- Flexible working
- Annual Bonus
- Anniversary Increase
- Training and Development
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme - Counseling
