Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineers at xneelo work on large-scale hosting infrastructure, focusing on automation, scalability, and delivering reliable web hosting services. They are passionate about high-quality, iterative software development within an Agile environment.

Location: South Africa

Responsibilities

• Solving interesting and large scale backend technical challenges
• Being part of figuring out how we get better at what we do
• Looking for opportunities to innovate and optimize
• Understanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders)
• Supporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team

Requirements

• Design & development of backend software and APIs
• Object-oriented programming using a language like Ruby
• Software development within the Linux/Unix environment
• Software development using a containerization platform like Docker or Kubernetes
• Agile development practices (team focus, continual improvement, automated tests, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming)
• Effective communication
• Self-motivation and self-management
• Life-Long Learning

Additional Information

• Minimum of 4+ years of software development experience
• Minimum of 2 years supporting a large scale application in an operational capacity
• Experience with Rancher, Docker Swarm or other container orchestration platforms
• Understanding of database design and performance tuning (MySQL, Redis, etc.)
• Experience with DevOps on a linux based platform
• Experience with system administration on a linux based platform