Software Engineer at Engie Africa

 Job Purpose/Mission 

• We are looking for a talented, self-starting software engineer to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets.
• This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact.
• Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the bi-weekly software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks, and key practical considerations (such as technical debt, feasibility at scale ….)
• Take requirements and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with minimal to no supervision.
• Develop complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs.
• Participate and contribute to   architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, assumptions, etc...
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.
•  provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems, on-call)

 Experience and skills 

Required:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience
• Programming language proficiency in Python and mastery of at least one web frameworks (Django, Flask, fast API)
• Good knowledge of object relational mappers (and their implementation design patterns), No SQL, PostgreSQL, and storage options.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and OOP practices, TDD
• Strong API development and documentation experience
• Experience using observability and monitoring tools.
• Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
• Experience with git: GitHub/Gitlab based source code management and deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Desired:

• JavaScript and typescript proficiency with strong knowledge of one JS framework
• HTML4/5, CSS3, AJAX, Bootstrap along with strong knowledge of DOM.
• Strong software engineering and architectural patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)
• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in cloud context: elastic cache, distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, clustering.
• Good experience on high availability, observability, and structured logging
• API design to scale in Python (REST, GraphQL,Apollo...)
• Knowledge of container and container orchestration
• Web and application Server backend management is a strong advantage.
• Good knowledge of web application security with standards such as OWASP
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)

Language(s): 

• English
• French is a plus.