Lead Python Backend Engineer

Recruiter:

Golden Rule

Job Ref:

GDR03614

Date posted:

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable

SUMMARY:

The role of the Lead Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and leading the design and development of solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.

Build solutions from requirements received f...

POSITION INFO:

The role of the Lead Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and leading the design and development of solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.

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- Build solutions from requirements received from product owner.
- Be able to work in agile environment.
- Able to build POC solutions and demonstrate/present.
- Maintain a stable server with zero downtime.
- Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and elective technical solution.
- Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.
- Develop tools and applications by producing clean, code.
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
- Review and debug code.
- Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions.
- Mentor junior engineers.
- Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products.
- Be able to report on his work using agile tools such as JIRA.
- Be able to elaborate and document their work in confluence.
- Communicative and proactive.
- AWS components such as Lambda, SQS, Dynamo DB
- AWS API Gateway
- Terraform
- Python 3.9
- Pytest
- Knowledge of Rest API integrations
- OpenAPI, swagger
- GitHub actions for CI CD
- Docker and Docker compose
- Makefile
- Apache velocity language
- Proven experience as a Back-end developer
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Competencies:
- Strategic
- Leading with Influence
- Collaboration (Relating)
- Customer First
- Execution
- Innovation (Perspective)
- Personal Mastery (Learning)

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