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About Afrihost

Address
376 Rivonia Boulevard
Company size
201-500 employees

Highlights

Afrihost is on a mission to build a world-class tech team through OfferZen.

Afrihost is committed to drive growth and innovation in the tech community.

Summary

What we do

Afrihost provides internet services to the country. We specialise in shared hosting, dedicated/cloud hosting, DSL/Mobile/Fibre data.

Why Work For Us

We are a leader in the industry, and always push the envelope of technology and innovation to drive our company forward. But we don't just do it for profit - we do it to have fun and learn awesome things as well. A defining part of our teams are to grow and learn how to do things that in the past seemed impossible.

Our Culture

We constantly try to learn new things and have a happy and friendly team. Even though we've grown in numbers since the company was founded more than a decade ago - we still try to keep the "start-up mentality".

Our Engineering Processes

We trust our developers with the entire stack of what is needed to achieve the task at hand. This means they have full access to the necessary parts of the system (dev side as well as production) to get done what needs to get done in the fastest manner possible (while naturally balancing that with security and safety). Each developer has a sense of autonomy - which we feel is core to what we do. It's nice to be a developer - it's great to be a developer who also get trusted to have her/his say about the business direction.

Our Hiring Process

After initial screening - we'd request a small questionnaire to be filled out. This enables us to ascertain certain technology, cultural and personality traits we are looking for. Once that is done, an interview may be granted (either online or in person - preferably off course in person). Finally - if no other information or interviews are required - we make an offer and you're in!

Perks at Afrihost

Games Area
Gym (on premises) - showers included :)
Retirement Plan
Coffee ... lots, and lots... of coffee!
MacBook Pro
Free Fibre / DSL / Mobile data
Free Airtime package
Subsidised Medical Aid

Tech Stack

application and data

AngularJS
AngularJS
Sass
Sass
Laravel
Laravel
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
React
React
Redis
Redis
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
MongoDB
MongoDB
memcached
memcached
HTML5
HTML5
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
nginx
nginx
Vue.js
Vue.js
React Native
React Native
OneSignal
OneSignal
GraphQL
GraphQL

utilities

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Hotjar
Hotjar
BrowserStack
BrowserStack
Litmus
Litmus

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
GitHub
GitHub
Git
Git
Docker
Docker
GitLab
GitLab
npm
npm
Bitbucket
Bitbucket

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello

Office Photos

CEO didn't get the memo that it's April Fool's day. (You should've seen the Dev Manager's office!!!)
The team!
There's cake on Wednesdays! :)
The guy on the right keeps winning the guy on the left. He also knows how to quit VIM.
Programming... play... food... coffee... it's a lifestyle.
Did I mention lunch is free? (The company sometimes cost you in pun's)
Bring your pet to the office day. One of them is a B-TREE.
One of our dev's presenting at PHP Craft South Africa
Launch-day (CEO didn't have time to change into work-clothes)
SysAdmin day - food and beer. They smiled.
More office photos, 'cause it's a nice place :)
Time to play!
Like I said - we're weird.
We have a weird hat thing.
Sometimes we just have our meetings outside, because why not?!
Coffee. Focus on the fact that this photo has really nice coffee in it.
We seriously have a weird hat problem.
Office
Dev's in their natural habitat (earphones and coffee are essential)