Full Stack Software Engineer

The iKTribe is searching for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join our forces!

This role embodies the transition to iKhokha’s new development stack. It’s a challenge and we’re looking for a Software Engineer who wants to help us tackle the project.

We are looking for a team player that thrives in an Agile Scrum environment, who will report back to the team as well as participate in team activities.

If you are passionate about your craft and consider yourself a decent table tennis player #JointheHustle!

So, what will you do?

You will be building new technologies, maintaining existing technologies as well as testing various systems within the fintech space.

You will be working in an Agile environment within a Scrum team that allows you to participate and collaborate in sprint ceremonies.

You will lead certain projects on your own under the guidance of the Chief Tech Officer.

In addition to the above, you will;

Work alongside the dev team on the transition to iKhokha’s new development stack which is coded in NodeJS/Typescript. It will encompass the ongoing development and maintenance of iKhokha’s microservice ecosystem including the tools used within it.

Be directly responsible for the end to end development of serverless microservice based systems, including: initial planning, development, writing test cases, creating the deployment pipeline and deploying to our cloud hosting provider.

The deal breakers:

3-5 years of relevant experience with at least one of the below technologies:

NodeJS/Typescript

Java

SQL

.Net

Any relevant experience with the below technologies would make you a front runner for the role:

AWS Stack (Lambda, Dynamo, S3, EC2, ETC)

Docker

Test oriented development (using jest ideally)

Our mission is to democratize and grow entrepreneurship through mobile innovation. We’re iKhokha, a classic fintech start-up story. iKhokha is a co-founder led business that believes that every South African entrepreneur should be given the opportunity to compete in the digital economy and we, as a team and a business aim to give them the tools to do just that. We don’t do politics or ego’s. Our customers always come first. We pride ourselves on our diversity, unity, street smarts, curiosity and ability to solve problems. We’re a bunch of cool, humble and open people and our culture is the heartbeat of our iKtribe.