Mission
OfferZen exists to help South African tech talent build an awesome future by connecting them to the right teams where they can do their best work.
By working in the Product squad, you will contribute to this mission by providing technical leadership and delivering impactful features at a high cadence. You will also coach and guide junior and intermediate engineers and contribute to our engineering culture. As a full stack engineer, you will work on new and existing features across our stack and services, emphasising maintainable code, practicing ownership, and building an incredible user experience.
Outcomes
- Design, test, and ship great front-end and back-end code every week to build impactful new features for users and internal operational teams.
- Contribute to all stages and drive critical phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Work with a wide range of systems, stakeholders, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from design to delivery.
- Uphold and improve our engineering standards and processes.
- Support junior and intermediate engineers to grow their technical abilities.
- Grow the breadth and depth of your knowledge.
- Deliver value fast through good design and easily testable and shippable fullstack code.
- Collaborate well with others inside your squad and across squads.
- Communicate timeously on blockers & unblock others.
- Contribute to initiatives in the scope of the entire organisation.
Competencies
- Excellent at solving problems that combine product design, process, and technical aspects.
- Able to clearly articulate solutions for a technical and non-technical audience.
- Good understanding of patterns, responsibility separation, component-oriented design, data modeling.
- Minimum of five years experience working with any backend JavaScript framework or Python in a production environment.
- Minimum of three years experience working with React, Vue, Svelte or similar in a production environment.
- Writing unit tests to cover all permutations of added functionality.
- Creating documentation for feature designs or architectural choices so that new engineers can quickly start contributing effectively.
- Experience with databases (MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL).
- Demonstrated AI Fluency with a focus on:
- Delegation: The ability to identify tasks that can be more efficiently completed with AI tools.
- Description: The skill of writing precise and effective prompts to achieve a desired outcome.
- Discernment: The ability to critically evaluate and validate AI-generated output for accuracy and quality.
- Diligence: The commitment to using AI responsibly, ethically, and securely.
Background and personality
- 5+ years experience in software development.
- Used to working in small teams.
- Good communication skills.
- Driven by learning and continuously striving towards self-improvement.
- High confidence, low ego.
- Capable of backing opinions and decisions with data.
- Driven to work hard to achieve a high level of personal execution.
- Attention to detail.
What it's like to work here
We love to do fun stuff together. We are focused on building a connected tribe and a sense of belonging. We value unique and diverse approaches and ensure we create opportunities to share and learn from each other. We have regular online events, show and tells and a book club as well as regional and annual off-site events.
We're dedicated to authenticity: We treat people as people, caring personally and speaking openly. We foster low-ego behaviour - we own our mistakes as well as our victories. We're never about blame. We're always about honesty, learning and continuous improvement. We ensure lots of transparency and visibility. From OKRs and strategy to analytics and company performance numbers, it's all available for you to see and understand.
We're passionate about learning and levelling up: Everyone at OfferZen strives for a growth mindset. We read books, listen to podcasts, share expertise obsessively, then take on hard challenges with smart guidance and support. When things go wrong, we look for the learning and how to improve.
We’re all about balance: We believe that maintaining a healthy balance between home and work is the key to feeling happier and more productive. We work fully remote and also offer 24 days of leave a year which are available to use from the time you start.
*This role can be based locally or remotely - we welcome all applicants based in South Africa.
