Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

iKhokha is a place where chance takers become change makers. At iKhokha, we believe in better. As you'd expect, our pace is fast-moving and ever-changing. We like it that way.  As one of the fastest growing Fintech's in Africa we've built a team of global change-makers who want to make an impact. If you believe in a better future, be a chance-taker and help us empower small businesses in South Africa.

Ready to revolutionize the way businesses grow and operate?  

Join the iKTribe as a Senior Software Engineer, where you'll lead the development of our central dashboard, a vital tool for merchants to manage and expand their businesses through innovative technological solutions. 

So, what will you do?  

• You will be a part of building new technologies, maintaining existing technologies as well as testing various systems within the FinTech space.  
• You will also be working in an Agile environment within a collaborative cross-functional Team, reporting into the Software Development Manager.  
• You will be developing internal facing business tools that support our internal support teams using React.js, HTML5 and CSS.    
• You will be responsible for the end-to-end development including: initial planning, development, writing test cases, creating the deployment pipeline and deploying to our cloud hosting provider.   
• You will exhibit excellent communication and team player skills. 

In addition to the above, you will:  

• Ensuring that code developed is of the highest standards through the adherence to Engineering Principles, Pull Request Standards and Definitions of Done.  
• Ensuring that development has sufficient Code coverage through the creation of Unit test.  
• Ensuring that code adheres to “Clean as you code standard“.  
• Creating, reading, maintaining, interpreting, updating and reviewing documentation.  
• Helping other engineers to grow through effective mentorship.  
• Ensuring that the team and stakeholders are communicated too effective and efficiently through Pull Requests, Jira Tickets, Slack and Confluence.  
• Imparting valuable knowledge to the engineering team at large through knowledge sharing sessions. 

The following would be advantageous:  

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Deal Breakers:

5+ years’ experience in the following:  

• Working within an Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methods.  
• Version Control experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) with a version control system such as GitHub.  
• Development Environments experience whereby you have worked in Engineering Teams (with developers of various levels) within multiple environments for Development, Testing and Production; including Branching Strategies.  
• Experience with Technical Leadership whereby you have led a Software Engineering Team (with developers of various levels) and been involved in Technical Leadership, Code Quality, Code Standards, Code Security, System and Code Performance.  
• Experience with creating, maintaining and reviewing documentation.  
• Experience with leading and participating in Code Reviews for your own team as well as those in other teams.  
• Designing and implementing various architectural layers: for example presentation, application, service, integration and database layers. 
• Willingness to mentor, support and guide developers at various levels.  

In addition to the above, the experience in the following technologies, domains and best practices will make you a frontrunner for the role: 

• ReactJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS and Node.js 
• Rest API Integration 
• CMS API Integration (Sanity, Magento, or similar) 
• Telemetry Integration (Datadog, or similar) 
• Unit Testing frameworks (Jest, or similar) 
• AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, AWS EC2 
• Microservices 
• Design Patterns 
• Solid Principles and Object Oriented Programming Concepts 
• Linux (Docker, Kubernetes) 
• VSCode / IntelliJ 

Perks of joining the Tribe

• Work in a high-growth company with tangible results you're accountable for. 
• Enjoy hybrid, remote, and in office work models. 
• Competitive remuneration and benefits, including Medical Aid and Group Risk scheme contributions. 
• Be guided by visionary leadership. 
• Seize the opportunity for study leave.   
• Access to on-demand learning and development. 
• Experience a friendly, collaborative culture with a team of all-round-lekker humans (it’s true, we surveyed our Employees and they told us so). 
• If you find yourself at HQ, coffee on tap and a selection of hot beverages provided by our very own onsite Barista.