Senior Backend Engineer

Equal Experts

Description Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.  We’re seeking backend engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network.  As a member of the team, you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.  You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by extensive knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few.  A growth-based, learning mindset is a must, coupled with a passion for technology.  This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way. Responsibilities  * Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.  * Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices  * Automation of system infrastructure and deployments.  * Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it).  * Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.  * Mentoring client team members.  * Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities.    Required Skills  * Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems. * Expert level knowledge of your chosen programming language and the associated tooling. Experience with other languages is highly desirable. * Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing. * Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts. * Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams. * Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action.   Nice To Have  * Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including microservice architectures and RESTful services. * Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.

Equal Experts

Description Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. We’re seeking Frontend Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network. As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values. You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by good knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few. A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology. This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way. Responsibilities ● Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them. ● Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices ● Automation of system infrastructure and deployments. ● Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it). ● Advocating agile practices to the client organisation. ● Mentoring client team members. ● Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities. Required Skills ● Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems. ● Expert level knowledge of web, Javascript and the associated tooling. Experience with Javascript frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS and AngularJS etc are highly desirable. Up-to-date knowledge of semantic HTML & CSS. ● Hands on experience with building performant, secure and accessible applications ● Hands-on experience with test driven development and other forms of automated testing. ● Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts. ● Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams. ● Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action. Nice To Have ● Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including micro frontend architectures. ● Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud

Equal Experts

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA. Our Data Engineers are highly skilled in creating data pipelines for ingest, transformation and storage of data, usually at scale, and are familiar with standing-up analytics clusters. This role involves using modern agile technical practices - including Continuous Integration and Deployment, TDD, and XP - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.   Responsibilities * Working with the client and the team to determine data processing and access needs and how best to deliver them. * Creation and support of highly available data pipelines and storage solutions (e.g. data warehouses). * Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices. * Automation of data infrastructure and deployments.  * Advocating agile practices to the client organisation. * Mentoring client team members. * Helping improve the team and clients’ data capabilities.   Required Skills * Significant experience working on data pipelines, platforms and projects. * Experience in developing solutions in one or more of the main Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure). * Strong background in at least one programming language, Python or Scala preferable. * Working with a variety of databases, data warehouses and distributed file systems in production environments. * Strong experience in SQL and data modelling. * Exposure with data processing at scale. * Knowledge about GDPR and data security. * Working with source control and infrastructure as code (Git/Github, Terraform, ansible etc.) and CI/CD tools. * Understanding and being able to support data scientists or business intelligence teams - in data prep, mentoring and support functions. * Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed *This role is only open to candidates that are based in South Africa