xneelo

Role Description At xneelo (Pty) Ltd, our backend software engineers are tasked with providing a world-class API layer between the customer and their hosting services. As a backend software engineer, you will be responsible for: - Building and maintaining secure, consistent, and reliable infrastructure and services. - Enabling our customers to manage their hosting services in a dynamic and ever-changing environment. - Being part of a cross-functional engineering team that architects both the services and underlying hardware/software supporting infrastructures. Our position as a large-scale, mass-market hosting company comes with a unique set of complex problems that requires a team able to creatively solve these challenges in an innovative fashion. As a potential candidate, you will be expected to: - Tackle problem spaces that require applying industry-standard software development practices. - Expand our CI implementation. - Solve scaling problems to provide a reliable and performant platform. Product development at xneelo focuses on the engineering of the backend infrastructure as a vital component of delighting our customers by transforming complexity into click-of-a-button simplicity. We are passionate about: - Frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software. - Building lasting solutions using Agile principles and the latest technology available. We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their part of the xneelo ecosystem and require commitment to and understanding of the Agile (Scrum) development philosophy. The software development team is fully remote. Qualifications - BSc or BTech majoring in Computer Science (advantageous). - 5+ years software development experience. Requirements - Passion for technology to serve operational and client requirements. - Programming, open source technologies, and IT in general. - Optimal systems and simple procedures. - Agile development and a self-organising team environment. - Sharing ideas and innovation. - Test-driven development mindset. - High level of proficiency in: - Backend and API software design & development. - Ruby (language currently in use), Java, Go, Python, or PHP (willingness to transition to Ruby). - Database design and architecture (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc.). - Software development within the Linux/Unix environment. - Strong familiarity with Linux fundamentals (Debian/Ubuntu, etc.). - Agile development practices (team focus, continual improvement, automated tests, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming). - Object-oriented programming. - Effective communication. - Self-motivated and self-managing. - Understanding the true cost of a temporary solution and pursuing projects to their full completion. Benefits - Opportunity to solve interesting and large-scale backend technical challenges. - Be part of figuring out how we get better at what we do. - Look for opportunities to innovate and optimise. - Collaborate with the Product Owner and stakeholders to understand customer needs and deliver innovative, robust solutions.