GoDaddy helps the world easily start, confidently grow, and successfully run an online presence. GoDaddy was born to give people an easy, affordable way to get their ideas online. Today, we have millions of customers around the world, but our goal hasn't changed. We’re here to help people easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures - online and off!

Over puts the power to inspire the world, build a business, or grow your brand – in the palm of your hand. You can create impactful visual content in just a few taps, with no design experience necessary. We've also recently joined forces with <a href="https://www.godaddy.com/garage/godaddy-welcomes-over/">GoDaddy</a> on its mission to radically shift the global economy toward life-fulfilling independent ventures. &nbsp;

At Over we believe that Creativity is the magical act of making change happen.&nbsp; It’s the power to reinvent yourself and the sorcery of making something out of nothing.&nbsp; It's also the terror of a blank page; a rough destination with no directions.  &nbsp; But with the right tools, creativity turns any obstacle course into a playground. &nbsp; So&nbsp;we take the hard parts out, so our users can focus on the joy of making change happen&nbsp; Our users are ambitious, driven, and highly creative go-getters, entrepreneurs and dreamers, and we make it our mission to ensure they’re equipped with the tools and knowledge to make their mark on the world – whatever that may be. &nbsp;

We have an incredibly talented team of inspiring individuals, who have worked tirelessly to make Over into the wonderful product it is today. Together, we’re inspiring the world to create, one design at a time.

We’re an award winning (yes! You read that right - we’re one of<a href="https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2019/12/apple-celebrates-the-best-apps-and-games-of-2019/"> Apple’s 2019 apps of the year</a> in the ‘Storytelling Simplified’ category) with a distributed team spanning a wide range of locations – and we’re constantly growing. &nbsp;

<a href="https://madewithover.com/">https://madewithover.com/</a> &nbsp;

At Over, we live and breathe these values – and they show up in everything we do:&nbsp;

Your manager is in Pretoria, South Africa, but you’ll be working remotely from anywhere in EU time zones.

We are looking for a&nbsp;Back End Engineer&nbsp;to assist in building robust back end microservices to support content, search and other features that help our users on our platform. We want to optimize tools, all while gaining valuable insights to help continually improve our products.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws.

If you need help completing an application for a position with GoDaddy, please reach out to our Recruiting Team at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:myrecruiter@godaddy.com" target="_blank">myrecruiter@godaddy.com</a>.&nbsp;

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.

Back End Engineer

Wizeline is a software development and design services company with operations in the U.S., Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, and Spain. Wizeline partners with global enterprises and scaling startups to build end-to-end digital products.

Wizeline is a software development and design services company with operations in the U.S., Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, and Spain. High-growth companies need engineering capacity to scale. Wizeline brings depth in product design, technical writing, project management, and across engineering disciplines.

At Wizeline, we understand that great software is built by great people and teams. To retain and develop top talent, we foster a working environment that celebrates creativity, encourages skill development, and allows for multidisciplinary collaboration. We believe in a diverse, inclusive, and harassment-free workplace where all can achieve their full potential, leading to company, customer, and community success.

Wizeline is committed to the communities in which it operates. We believe in doing well while also doing good. Wizeline Academy is a free, community-based education program that teaches high-value skills to workers looking to advance their careers in the tech industry. To date, Academy has served more than 8,500 students with more than 7,000 hours of instruction across 85 courses

Wizeline fully embraces DevOps as a culture and methodology to get things done. As a Site Reliability Engineer at Wizeline, you will enable the&nbsp;quick release of quality products,&nbsp;thus leading to faster innovation cycles for our clients and higher impact on the users.

You will be responsible for the non-functional attributes of the applications, such as scalability, performance, quality, and architecture. You will improve collaboration and organizational performance, ensure world-class reliability and security of operations, all whilst achieving seamless software delivery in record time. You will work on projects that provide new opportunities for skill development and gain exposure to multinational brands.

Some of the stack you may use here at Wizeline:

We offer exceptional career growth opportunities to our employees with skill development workshops, mentoring programs, and support for side projects or entrepreneurial work.

We offer competitive compensation and employee-centric benefits, including industry-leading maternity and paternity leave, wellness programs, and on-site daycare facilities at our GDL office.&nbsp;

We have a Work Abroad program in place, as well as language training and immigration support for expats.

Wizeline creates and fosters a diverse, inclusive, and harassment-free workplace where everyone can achieve their potential. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Think-it is an engineering collective on a mission to unlock human potential through sustainable use of technology. Our high-tech, low-carbon solutions help innovative teams around the world lower costs, democratize data, and reach net-zero faster.

With a focus on digital transformation, smart infrastructure, and the UN SDGs, we tackle meaningful problems that can only be solved with future-proof technology. Our team includes experts in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and DevOps & Cloud.

Founded in 2017, Think-it is home to a high-performing and diverse team of changemakers in Germany, Tunisia, and around the world — including 8+ nationalities and 40% women. We are enthusiastically committed to inclusivity and ethical technology in our collective, partner teams, and mission-aligned investor networks.

Think-it is a software engineering collective on a mission to unlock human potential through sustainable use of technology. Our high-performance, low-carbon solutions help innovative teams around the world lower costs, democratize data, and reach net-zero faster.

With a focus on digital transformation, smart infrastructure, and the UN SDGs, we tackle meaningful problems that can only be solved with future-proof technology. Our team includes experts in Full Stack Engineering, Machine Learning, and DevOps and Cloud.

Founded in 2017, Think-it is home to a diverse community of changemakers — we represent 8+ nationalities, and 40% of us are women. We’re proud to be backed by mission-aligned partners, and our goals are people- and planet-centric.

We believe that technology is most powerful when it's used to build real solutions to the ways we live, move, eat, and work on this planet. Our cross-discipline teams tackle big and diverse challenges with partners around the world, and no two projects are alike - and as a certified AWS partner we're proactively building cloud-based data infrastructures and cloud-native applications that scale and serve millions of users around the globe.

In 2021 we want to strengthen our expertise across cloud management and automation, Containers and Serverless and other use cases and build the strongest DevOps team across the African continent and we'd love you to drive that chapter with us.

We’re looking for a&nbsp;DevOps Engineer&nbsp;with 4+ years of experience working within the AWS ecosystem, designing, implementing and monitoring cloud infrastructure as well as building CI/CD pipelines and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally for our partner projects.

20%: Up to you!&nbsp;What are you passionate about? What do you want to learn, and where else would you like to contribute?

Think-it is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, veteran status, disability, history of disability, or perceived disability. QUICK TIP: Make sure to send us your CV in ENGLISH. No need for a cover letter. 🙂

Senior DevOps Engineer

We’re looking for a&nbsp;DevOps Engineer&nbsp;with 2+ years of experience working within the AWS ecosystem, designing, implementing and monitoring cloud infrastructure as well as building CI/CD pipelines and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally for our partner projects.

Think-it is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, veteran status, disability, history of disability or perceived disability. QUICK TIP: Make sure to send us your CV in ENGLISH. No need for a cover letter 🙂

Software Development Engineer (DevOps)

Zappi is a SaaS company that is aimed at completely transforming the market research industry. Zappi is a platform that integrates world class research methodologies and engineering to allow brands to run consumer testing through all stages of advertising and innovation development. We are constantly innovating and tackling diverse and complex problems using a multitude of technologies in order to scale expertise and create the world’s most powerful enterprise research platform thereby making the world of insights even better.

We have created an environment that fosters constant learning and innovating and we believe in having ambitious goals. We are data scientists, developers, researchers, analysts, designers, engineers, and marketers all driven by the notion of trying to make the impossible possible. To realise our vision we are constantly in search of people who will bring a different perspective, who will challenge our thinking, create value for our customers and apply themselves passionately to our vision and culture.

In 2012, we set out to automate the world of market research. Now it’s 2021 and we want to make the world of insights better, to scale expertise and to create the world’s most powerful enterprise research platform.

We knew back then that to have continued success we needed an environment that fosters constant learning and ambitious goals; a place of diverse opinions and experiences, where talented people can do their best work with very little in their way.

To realize our vision, we are constantly in search of people who will bring a different perspective, who will challenge our thinking, create value for our customers and apply themselves passionately to our vision and culture.

The security team has multidisciplinary skills who aim to create and embrace an honest, transparent and reliable security management system that ensures our users, clients and other stakeholders operate in a secure environment. Our security analytics tooling includes TheHive + Cortex, ELK stack, MISP, Defect Dojo and Security Data Lakes. We are mandated to improve the security for our users, AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Zappi Applications (built with Rails, JavaScript, Python e.t.c) several supporting SaaS solutions and enforce regulatory compliance requirements. We are moving towards security focused on a combination of User-Centric, Data-Driven Security and Zero Trust Networks applied to a Mobile and Cloud-first organisation.

At Zappi we work hard to maintain an honest and transparent environment. We are humble; we hold ourselves and each other to account; we listen carefully to leverage our diversity as one of our biggest strengths; we value people who step up and show leadership, whatever their level or experience; and we deeply trust the people who work here to manage their commitments and their own time. If you are motivated by working with brilliant people and solving hard problems, you are going to love it here.

- Proven work experience in DevOps/Security Engineering

- Programming or scripting experience with at least one popular modern language e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl, R and Java

- Knowledge of network security and networking technologies e.g. firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-malware solutions, content filtering, log management and network monitoring tools.

- Familiarity with web-related technologies (Web applications, Web Services) and their protocols

- Experience with CI/CD processes and concepts using relevant technologies and tools (e.g. Jenkins, Terraform, Chef)

- Experience and/or knowledge of AWS Cloud Infrastructure and its security

- Experience and/or knowledge of Kubernetes

- Experience and/or knowledge of working with SIEM’s

- Experience and/or knowledge of building Infrastructure as Code

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other Technical discipline or equivalent relevant experience

- 2+ years of experience with Security Best Practices, implementing security solutions

- 3+ years of experience writing code or scripts in a modern programming or scripting language

- Take time to listen deeply before acting

- Aren’t afraid to address challenging issues directly, with compassion

- Lead through inspiration, not coercion and create space for others to lead

- Are comfortable with radical transparency

- Are comfortable with being uncomfortable, change is constant at Zappi

- Listen carefully to each other and our customers

- Want to have a positive impact on our communities and the planet

Zappi is an equal opportunity employer; our diversity is a major strength. We maintain a constant dialogue with our teams and wider communities about how we can become a more inclusive place to work.

- Competitive pay scales benchmarked annually

- Unlimited holidays - this is not a trap! We expect and encourage people to take plenty of leave

- Work in a way that suits your lifestyle with flexible working and travel arrangements to/from work

- Open Plan Office with stocked snacks, fruit, beers and cool drinks

- Nice working setup (High-end spec MacBook Pro + Hi-Res Screen or 2 monitors + keyboard + Mouse + Stand etc.) - i.e. get what you ask for to make you productive

DevSecOps Engineer

- passionate about solving complex problems with an array of engineering techniques

- are versatile and think outside the box

- display leadership qualities and are enthusiastic about taking on new problems

- take time to listen deeply before acting

- aren't afraid to address challenging issues directly, with compassion

- lead through inspiration not coercion and create space for others to lead

- are comfortable with radical transparency

- are comfortable being uncomfortable; change is constant at Zappi

- listen carefully to each other and to our customers

- believe anyone can achieve great things; we don’t put people in boxes

- promote experimentation and freedom of expression whether it is with new engineering practices, new technologies or new cultural and working practices

- want to have a positive impact on the planet and our communities

Zappi is an equal opportunities employer; our diversity is a major strength. We maintain a constant dialogue with our teams and wider communities about how we can become a more inclusive place to work.

As a Zappi developer the role is what you make of it. While you will have experts to ask advice from where necessary, and with your team you will have a high degree of influence on design and implementation decisions. You will almost certainly work across different programming languages and technologies, building and sharing knowledge with your colleagues as you progress.

You will be a developer with an active role in an Agile development team participating in PBRs, Sprint Planning and Reviews and Retrospectives. Development teams at Zappi use fairly standardised SCRUM or KANBAN containing the roles Product Owner, Developer and QA roles.

A development team member at Zappi must be able to demonstrate:

- Openness and honesty in terms of technology, estimation and personal capability

- Willingness to ask for or offer help when help is needed proactively

- Desire to work in an environment which is friendly and comfortable for a very diverse group of people

- Ability to communicate via video conference, messaging and face to face. Development teams at Zappi are often geographically distributed across multiple Zappi offices

- Ability to self-manage in an organisation with a high degree of autonomy

- Willingness to share knowledge in order to allow the team to grow as a whole or Zappi as a whole

- Understanding of the importance of good administration and proper uses of team tools like GitHub, Jira and CI tools

You will be working with a modern, diverse and evolving technology stack, you should be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience relevant to:

- Ruby on Rails REST and GraphQL APIs and other languages

- Kubernetes on AWS along with many other AWS Services

Zappi developers operate in a busy, fast moving environment while continuously striving for improvements in quality. Engineering skills which are important to a Zappi developer are:

- Writing well designed, efficient and fully tested code which is easy to maintain. TDD is preferred

- Architectural understanding of multi-service, multi-tier distributed applications

- Debugging and diagnostic skills using data from multiple sources

- Designing and working with SQL databases in production environments

- Strong desire to learn about new platform features, technology and programming languages

- Ability to consider multiple solutions and communicate the risks and advantages of each way.

Your prospective team will be able to share the details around the content of what they work on

If you believe in quality, maintainability, testing, design/architecture, you might be the right developer for us

Software Developer

We are GEERD to build innovative learning and collaborative tools that are dedicated to give experts new ways to teach and share excellence, build a and empower a culture of research and enhance student success through providing universities in the effective application and implementation of instructional technologies.

At GEERD, we want to help our clients in their digital transition by developing software that is tailored to their need.

Our elearning platform and online assessments platform use an event driven api (written in house) in NodeJS and we want to improve many aspects of our backend.

Feel free to share with us your portfolio or exciting projects you work on previously.

Paid Internship: Backend Developer

Tools we use:&nbsp;NodeJS, ReactJS, Apollo, GraphQL, Postgres

Feel free to share with us your portfolio or exciting projects you worked on previously.

DevOps Engineer

Standard Bank Group is a financial institution that offers banking and financial services to individuals, businesses, institutions and corporations in Africa and abroad.

All our products and services are based on a set of values that uphold the empowerment of our customers. Both internally, and in daily engagement with the our clients we foster transparency, innovation, accountability and superior service.

Standard Bank is a firm believer in technical innovation, to help us guarantee exceptional client service and leading edge financial solutions. Our growing global success reflects our commitment to the latest solutions, the best people, and a uniquely flexible and vibrant working culture. To help us drive our success into the future, we are looking for an experienced&nbsp;Technical Lead&nbsp;to join our team at our Johannesburg offices. Standard Bank is a leading African banking group focused on emerging markets globally.&nbsp; It has been a mainstay of South Africa's financial system for 150 years, and now spans 16 countries across the African continent.

The Software Engineering Technical Lead is responsible for defining, planning, allocating and directing of the software engineers and software quality engineers within one or more feature teams.

Strategy – Responsible for defining, maintaining and enforcing software engineering practices, policies, procedures and standards across the allocated feature team/s

Automated Test Management – Responsible and accountable for defining, maintaining and enforcing the test automation strategy for Digital Platforms

Build and Release Management – Responsible and accountable for ensuring high-quality input into the build and release management processes to ensure high availability and predictability of releases

Stakeholder Management – ensure alignment across feature teams and partners in the delivery of Software Engineering services

Leadership - Providing strategic vision and operational leadership to Digital Platforms Software Engineering

Risk Management – Providing technical risk analysis of releases

People Management – Lead a team of 8-15 people and ensure that sound people management practises are applied across the area in order to build a healthy team culture

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