About Lightstone

Address

Stratford House, The Braes, 193 Bryanston Drive, 2191

Company Size

51-200
Summary

What we do

Lightstone is the place to go to when decisions about property need to be made. Our development team are core in developing and maintaining tools and platforms that allow our clients to use our information and market intelligence to make informed decisions.

Why Work For Us

  • We hire exceptional people and provide them with an environment where they can excel.
  • We offer a development team environment that encourages teamwork, personal development and growth, and key product knowledge
  • We are excited about learning, pushing technical limits and finding new creative solutions to help our clients solve their problems.

Our Culture

We offer a family-style environment and non-corporate culture that allow our staff flexibility, collaboration and enormous opportunity for innovation. Our employees take pride in being attentive to detail and passionate about data and statistics.
We pride ourselves on our core values of excellence, integrity, innovation, flexibility, impact and teamwork which are reflected in each development, project, product or service we undertake to deliver.

Our Engineering Processes

We use agile techniques to deliver software with frequent release cycles. We love using technology to make our lives easier and our products better. Continuous integration, automated deployments and testing are some of the tools and processes we have and we're always looking for more.

Our Hiring Process

The interview process roughly follows this approach

  • technical interview with the development manager
  • live coding interview with a selection of the development team
  • informal chat with 2 members of the senior management team
Perks
Flexible work hours
Free, freshly ground coffee
2 month, paid sabbatical every 5 years
25 days leave
No dress code
Monthly company braai
Referral commission
Foosball
Latest technologies with minimal red tape
Great location
Parking Bay
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Javascript
Redis
jQuery
HTML5
C#
Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure
ASP.NET
MS SQL
.Net Core 2.0
TypeScript

DevOps

Git
Docker
Selenium
TeamCity
Team Foundation Server
Kubernetes

Utilities

Elasticsearch
Google Analytics

Business Tools

Slack
Zendesk
Sustenance
Chill area