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Job Description

The My Old Mutual team is a dynamic division within Old Mutual Limited, which seeks to drive digital engagement with customers by being at the forefront of digital development and innovation. Old Mutual’s longstanding history and unquestionable success in the financial industry, provide a solid foundation for expansion of its digital platform. The Digital & Data team applies customer-focused design thinking, agile and lean development methodologies, and continuous delivery practices.

The junior API developer is responsible for the development of high-quality solutions. This role requires participation in development and maintenance of software and other digital applications or services. The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centred software and advise on technical specifications. This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following the DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Responsibilities

Enabling teams by defining standards and building reusable artifacts for API development that not only suit their needs but retain a high level of security and reusability

Implementing solutions with automation in mind

Contributing to the technical roadmap and vision

Researching and assessing programming related advances and feeding back to team members

Creating and testing software prototypes

Communicating complex procedures to colleagues

Experience & Qualifications Requirements

Matric, with a degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics or related  

1+ years of experience in software development  

Knowledge of technologies such as: 

Containerisation: Kubernetes, Docker 

CI/CD - Jenkins, AWS Code Commit 

AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as AZURE or Google Cloud Platform 

Confluence, Jira 

.Netcore/ Kotlin/Java 

Knowledge of Test-Driven Development 

Developing applications to meet technical specifications

Knowledge of coding best practices 

Knowledge of agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban) 

Understanding of systems are scalable, responsive, robust, and secure  

Competencies Required

Attention to detail and big picture 

Action Oriented 

Continuous Improvement

Problem Solving 

Skills

Education

Closing Date

Old Mutual Limited has adopted a mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy requiring its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by 1 April 2022. All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination certificates or cards as part of the recruitment process.

If you have an objection to taking the Covid-19 vaccination, you will be required to produce a negative PCR test (at your own cost) on a weekly basis as an alternative to vaccination. Prospective employees must inform the recruiter of their election prior to start date.

Please refer to the Old Mutual policy for further detail. Old Mutual reserves the right to amend this policy from time to time.