FULL STACK ENGINEER

Crayon

Cape Town, Western Cape
Permanent
Full-time

14 days ago

To find out more, click Apply or head on over to Crayon to review the full spec and applyHow you'll roleAs the Full Stack Engineer you will work on the core components of the company’s platform. In collaboration with product managers and business stakeholders, you’ll be primarily tasked with helping build the ecosystem to expand the value the product offers and increase the market to which it is applicable.What you'll do

Become the subject matter expert in the company’s technical ecosystem
Drive engineering initiatives to completion, with a tenacious focus on rapid business impact
Inform technical prioritisation to deliver on goals with a sense of urgency
Solve tough technical problems at any level of the stack, and be persistent in getting to the solution, whether it involves back-end, infrastructure, or front-end work
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to plan and execute engineering initiatives

What you'll need

Extensive programming experience (Python and JavaScript)
4+ years of experience working with Python in a web development environment
2+ years of experience building customer facing websites or APIs
2+ years of experience working closely with a production/live environment pushing new features, troubleshooting and pushing hotfixes in a team environment
1+ years of experience with modern browser technologies based on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and at least any of the frontend/css frameworks (SvelteKit, React, Redux, SASS, Tailwind, etc.)
Experience in building web systems with any of the python web frameworks (Django or Flask), or other similar web frameworks
Knowledge and experience with data store technologies such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures and object oriented programming languages
Strong knowledge of basic design patterns. (MVP, MVVM)
Experience running Docker, Docker Compose to setup your local environment
Experience working closely with the product team, designers, and other developers
You are comfortable working in a tech startup environment

Bonus points:

Degree in computer science (BSc, MSc) or equivalent
Experience developing location-aware applications
GitHub account with cool projects you’ve built or contributed to
Amazon Web Services experience
Experience working with Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or any other container orchestration tooling
Experience writing CI/CD pipelines for Jenkins / CircleCI or the like
Experience working with Message Queuing (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ or the like
Experience working with cross platform app development

The Stack

Python (Django)
AWS ( Amazon ECS , ELBs , S3 , EC2 and others)
Docker / Docker Compose
React Native
GraphQL
MySQL
Sveltekit
Tailwind
Git

To find out more, click Apply or head on over to Crayon to review the full spec and apply

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