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Senior Software Engineer (Python) (Individual Contributor)

Potentiam (PTY) Ltd|Posted 15 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Backend engineer
Other roles:DevOps engineer, Software architect
Experience in role:5+ years
Must-have skills:
    Python
    SQL
    Docker
Nice-to-have skills:
    Google Cloud
    GraphQL
    API Design
    New Relic
    Grafana
    Datadog
    Cypress
    pytest
    CI/CD

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:Cape Town, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder or permanent resident
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

Join our client, a leading SaaS company revolutionizing the art industry, as a Senior Software Engineer. You'll be at the forefront of maintaining and enhancing our established art gallery management software, serving 5,500+ galleries and art professionals worldwide. Your role will focus on solving real-world problems for art professionals, making strategic technical decisions that balance business impact with technical trade-offs.

As a pragmatic, impact-driven engineer, you'll work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and gallery stakeholders to understand operational challenges and deliver practical technical solutions. You'll contribute to our technical strategy, improving system reliability, performance, and user experience. This hands-on role offers a clear path to technical leadership, with opportunities to mentor other engineers and shape our engineering culture.

We're looking for someone with 5+ years of backend/cloud engineering experience, particularly with Python and GCP. You should have deep observability experience, strong SQL database expertise, and familiarity with DevSecOps practices. We offer a collaborative environment with frequent pair programming, and the opportunity to work with emerging AI technologies. Join us in Cape Town CBD with a hybrid work model, and be part of a team that's making a significant impact in the art tech industry.

About Potentiam (PTY) Ltd

15-50 employees

What we do

Potentiam helps SME companies build world-class offshore teams. Our model is our locations and your dedicated staff under your control.

Potentiam have offices in Iasi in Romania, Bangalore and Cape Town, home to large liquid pools of offshore talent working for international companies.

Potentiam's management team have had over 15 years experience in building offshore teams, and have specialist functional expertise to support the transition offshore in technology, finance, operations, engineering, digital marketing, technology and analytics.

For decades corporations' scale has enabled them to benefit from the cost and skills advantage of offshore operations. Now SME companies can enjoy a similar benefit through Potentiam without any upfront investment.

What is Offshoring? • Degree educated staff at up to 70% less than UK staff • Dedicated staff under your control (operating as an employee) • Located in highly cost-effective and practical locations • Supported by advanced communication technology and data security • Highly flexible and easy to start with as little as one role

Perks at Potentiam (PTY) Ltd

Med Aid contribution
AWESOME coffee
Team wellness and environment
Pension Fund Contribuition

Tech Stack

application and data

Rails
Rails
AngularJS
AngularJS
Ionic
Ionic
Laravel
Laravel
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Javascript
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Ruby
Ruby
React
React
MongoDB
MongoDB
MEAN Stack
MEAN Stack
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
Django
Django
C#
C#
C++
C++
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MS SQL
MS SQL
C
C
TypeScript
TypeScript
R
R
Vue.js
Vue.js
Kibana
Kibana
VB.Net
VB.Net
Angular
Angular
Flutter
Flutter
React Native
React Native
AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify
WooCommerce
WooCommerce
Magento
Magento
AI Platform
AI Platform
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform
Drupal
Drupal
GraphQL
GraphQL
.NET Core
.NET Core

dev ops

Docker
Docker
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Terraform
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps

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