Polyglot Software Engineers

SPAN is hiring Polyglot Software Engineers who are based in South Africa.

About us: SPAN is a technical strategy & software engineering firm headquartered in San Francisco, with our dev operations in South Africa (CT & Jhb). SPAN’s founders created & evolved everything from iTunes-top-10 consumer mobile apps to Class-2 FDA-regulated cloud-based healthcare systems to the Shazam mobile app.

We're lucky enough to be home to some of the smartest, most gracious people building a unique, best-in-class, not-super-huge technology firm consisting of talented people working closely with our founders and global clients:

*Apple

*Science 37 [mobile technology/clinical trial company]

*Rakuten / Ebates

*HERE [open location platform]

*Beats Music [music streaming service]

*Walmart Labs [idea incubator for the world's largest global retailer]

*Major League Baseball Advanced Media/Bamtech [multimedia & live streaming]

*HBO Now, WWE & EuroSport

*Pandora [music streaming service]

Our polyglots use Java, Scala, Python, Go, Kotlin, ES6, NodeJs, ReactJs, Spark, Splunk, Akka, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQL, SPARQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Gearman, Kafka, Elasticsearch and whatever else required to:

• Create custom microservices
• Develop, deploy & operate, sophisticated large-scale SaaS solutions
• Develop feature-rich, cross-platform apps and product frameworks
• Model & design systems architecture

You’ll love it here if:

• You are allergic to hierarchical, bureaucratic, business-card cultures
• You're sad many of the greatest minds in our generation are busy tricking people into clicking on ads
• You want to work with very smart senior people from different backgrounds
• You are a voracious learner & an eager teacher of others
• You want to be led from the front, not commanded from the rear
• You don't tolerate intra-office posturing or other douchebaggery
• You're excited to work on a broad array of interesting, challenging projects

What we offer:

• Flexible work & generous leave schedule
• Competitive compensation
• A diverse team
• A learning organisation based on a reverence for expertise & craftsmanship (Meetups, Tech Radar sessions, mentorship & coaching, Lunch & Learning Fridays, conferences, e-learning & MOOC's)
• A delightful remote & office (hybrid) work culture
• Delivered to your home: Friday lunches, mobile haircuts, snacks, anniversary gifts...
• Macbook Pro Retina’s, noise cancelling headphones, dual monitors, ergonomic chairs, home office allowances etc.
• Mental wellness allowance
• Weekly & monthly get-togethers