About Us:
At Black Swan we create products and solutions to transform the way organisations use digital technology and their data, and create positive change in the future through the power of technology and prediction.
We work with many of the world's leading consumer-focused brands and help them think differently about data, technology, their customers and ultimately their own businesses. We believe in challenging the status quo. We aren’t afraid to ask difficult questions and thrive on change; bringing together a passionate and talented team with combined skills in software engineering, data science, design, product innovation and marketing. Our approach is fast; we strive for excellence and aim to build long lasting partnerships with our clients.
Company culture & core values:
We follow 3 simple rules when it comes to company culture
Our culture is an extension of your own consistently held and demonstrated beliefs, along with a clear mission that transcends monetary value. For us there’s nothing more personal than creating meaning in one’s work, and life.
We treat people like human beings, not cogs in a productivity machine. We look at the individual first and their role second and relate to employees on a more human level. We offer flexible working hours and organic team structures that enable our employees to learn from each other and leverage knowledge and experience.
We strive to stay ahead of the curve when it adopting technology, best practices and processes. We leverage our international footprint and knowledgebase to embrace change and adopt to constantly changing client requests and needs.
What will you be actually working on?
Our primary focus in the Cape Town offices is on product development for commercial aviation software. We develop and maintain the various toolsets used by commercial airlines (Lufthansa, Virgin Air, Air Singapore etc) to build, manage and deploy their inflight entertainment and payment systems to their aircraft.
We are also developing solutions for the logistic and shipping industry and are in the process of taking on other exciting projects from our international branches.
Black Swan’s clients include: Pepsi, Disney, Panasonic, Mars, Tesco, Unilever, Vodafone etc.
Opportunities for learning & growth
We are constantly leveraging our international footprint to improve knowledge sharing and foster growth in conjunction with our offices in Hungary, London, USA and Canada. There is a continuous drive to create a learning culture by implementing weekly cross language training sessions, giving developers the opportunity to try their hand at new technology and working with industry experts.
Cutting-edge technology
We strive to stay current with the latest cutting edge technologies.
Languages and frameworks we are currently focusing on include (but not limited to):
We also aim to stay current with devops tooling and frameworks, including:
Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCloud etc.
What can you expect.
You can expect the following steps when applying for a job at Black Swan CT:
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