Golang Developer (Backend Developer)

hearX Group

  • Pretoria, Gauteng
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 months ago
Work Location:
180 Garsfontein Road, Ashlea Gardens, PretoriaJob Purpose:
Communicates with B2B GM and B2B Back end Lead regarding understanding of systems, and strategy and then oversees the implementation. Communication with team members about expectations and solutions specifications, ensuring product quality by standardizing work procedures based on the company policies (and for hearX, establishing such policies).This would include responsibilities such as DevOPS, optimizing internal tools and flows, ensuring security and processes for development and cloud infrastructure with technical documentation and software development lifecycle flows.Assists with process, structure, task management, and implementations.Developing and maintaining software products and solutions offered by the company.Minimum education (essential):
Course or Certificate in ProgrammingMinimum education (desirable):
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar)Minimum applicable experience (years):
5+ years working experienceRequired nature of experience:
Software developmentSkills and Knowledge (essential):
  • Golang & Typescript.
  • Design and build data stores with complex relationships (relational or NoSQL).
  • Built/Designed distributed systems, back-end APIs, or microservices and cloud infrastructure, best practices, and security.
  • CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis
  • Experience with continuous deployment technologies (CICD eg. Github actions).
Skills and Knowledge (desirable):
  • Familiarity with (TDD) unit testing, performance, load, or end-to-end integration tests.
  • Cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Azure..
  • IAC, CDK, AWS Cloud formation, Terraform.
  • Understand business processes and domains.
Essential Competencies:
  • Examining Information
  • Developing Expertise
  • Making Decisions
  • Showing Composure
  • Embracing Change
  • Meeting Timescales
  • Upholding Standards
  • Taking Action
Important Competencies:
  • Providing Insights
  • Interpreting Data
  • Adopting Practical Approaches
  • Exploring Possibilities
  • Thinking Positively
  • Conveying Self-Confidence
  • Inviting Feedback
  • Impressing People
  • Convincing People
  • Challenging Ideas
  • Managing Tasks
  • Following Procedures
Backend Development & Programming 50%
  • Work with stakeholders to design and achieve appropriate, scalable technology solutions.
  • Develop and implement project plans to develop software.
  • Analyse systems for root cause, impact, workarounds, and permanent fixes.
  • Communicate effectively and efficiently with the line manager on progress, priorities, and workload.
  • Meet development timelines in projects and deliverables.
  • Identify and mitigate risks, making appropriate mid-course corrections as required.
  • Adhere to agreed-upon standards for code.
  • Generate and maintain effective and efficient high-quality, reusable code.
  • Use effective and efficient components & techniques to implement solutions.
  • Ensure all work is versioned and backed up according to company standards.
  • Meet set deliverable deadlines.
  • Ensure system security and data safety and compliance with standards.
  • Ensure all documentation is completed for projects/updates, that all code is commented on, and that QMS standards are followed in this regard.
  • Create pipelines to optimize code deployments (CICD).
  • Design and implement new databases.
  • Plan and execute migrations between legacy and new databases/software.
Analysis and Planning 20%
  • Multitask on a range of products and tasks simultaneously, defining priorities and ensuring efficiency.
  • Define and communicate problem, goal and acceptance criteria.
  • Communicate and collaborate with development, business analyst and design teams to solve problems, make recommendations and discuss best programming practices.
  • Conduct research on possible solutions and techniques.
  • Prepare a work breakdown structure.
  • Determine and account for dependencies among deliverables, products and systems.
  • Accurately estimate duration of deliverables.
  • Document analysis and planning process.
Testing and Implementation 10%
  • Ensure that all work is tested, benchmarked and fulfills functional requirements submitting for approval, review or deployment.
  • Prepare test environment, examples and instructions.
  • Participate enthusiastically in peer code reviews.
  • Deploy changes to live environment.
  • Maintain system and product change logs and release notes according to company standards.
Database Administration 5%
  • Engineer data structures.
  • Ensure compliance to data security standards.
  • Perform maintenance to ensure data integrity and efficiency.
  • Deploy new structure and content.
  • Restore data when required.
  • Provide reports on database administration as required.
Reporting and Communication 10%
  • Keep project documentation up to date and standard.
  • Provide timeous, efficient and effective feedback on project status.
  • Proactively keep stakeholders updated on progress, risks and problems.
  • Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
  • Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
  • Provide insight and feedback on queries regarding relevant projects.
Compliance 5%
  • Comply to ISO, CE, FDA (and other) standards and requirements as is applicable to assigned products.
  • Safeguard confidential information and data.
  • Maintain backups and backup systems.
QMS
  • This role is required to drive compliance to the hearX Quality Management System in line with the Quality Objectives, Quality Manual, and all processes related to the design, development and implementation of software related to medical devices, in addition to:
This job description is not a definitive or exhaustive list of responsibilities and is subject to change depending on changing business requirements. Employees will be consulted on any changes. Employee's performance will be reviewed based on the agreed upon objectives.

hearX Group

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