Senior Full Stack Web Developer: Cloud Services

At xneelo, it starts with purpose. We’re business enablers offering a hosting service for our customers to create and transact online. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ‘trusted in hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.

Xneelo is looking for senior full-stack developers to spearhead the development of our brand-new product: xneelo Cloud.

Xneelo Cloud is a versatile, Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud product offering scalable compute, storage, and network resources. This product is currently in beta, and is getting ready for full market release in the near future.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that is launching a new flagship Cloud product for xneelo. Our initial launch is focused on the South African market, and rapidly building on the Cloud features to add ongoing value to our customers. Once this is achieved, we plan to expand to the global market.

The Cloud product team is a close-knit, engaged, and productive group that is passionate about Cloud. As a developer in the team you’ll be responsible for building the tools, services and dashboards that our customers use to create their own virtualised environments.

You’ll work closely with the infrastructure team, building on top of the underlying compute and storage infrastructure, powered by OpenStack and Ceph. Python is primarily used to build and customise our open-source dashboard. 

The Cloud team is also pioneering Go as the team's primary language, whereas Ruby on Rails is more widely used within xneelo. Other items in our tech stack toolbox are Typescript, React, k8s, Redis, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Gitlab to name a few.

The experience and approach we’re looking for

• Senior full-stack Web application developer
• Strong API and database design and implementation skills
• Self-motivated, engaged, and committed team player
• DevOps and SRE thinking, secure coding, and overall end-to-end system ownership
• Values working in a self-organizing team environment and subscribes to leadership through ability and knowledge, not title
• Strive to grow your own and others' software craftsmanship
• Largely aligns with the Agile manifesto and its underlying principles
• Interest and investment in building a new Cloud product

Bonus Points

• Previous Cloud experience
• React, Django, and AngularJS experience
• Domain Driven Design experience
• Ruby, Go, Typescript, or Python experience
• Since the primary language used in the team is Go, experience with this tech stack will be highly beneficial
• Given the product domain, any Linux or cloud platform system administration or advanced user experience
• Kubernetes and Gitlab experience
• We are looking for talented engineers to join us and help get this team and product up and running and the salary will be negotiable, commensurate with your skills and track record.

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Overall disposition

The ideal candidate will have a passion for:

• Using technology to serve client requirements
• Programming, open-source technologies, and IT in general
• Developing Quality, Secure Optimal systems and simple procedures
• Agile development and a self-organising team environment
• Sharing ideas and innovation
• Ongoing learning and improvement

A high level of proficiency in the following

• Utilizing Cloud Services such as AWS, Azure or GCP to build software solutions
• Database design and performance tuning (MySQL or similar)
• Software development within the Linux/Unix environment
• Agile development practices (TDD, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming)
• Microservice principles and development
• Understanding of and development using Containers
• A DevOps background would be beneficial
• Linux systems administration skills will be an advantage
• Experience working with Go

Responsibilities

• Design & development of backend software and APIs
• Object-oriented programming using a language like Ruby
• Design & development of frontend components using React
• Software development within the Linux/Unix environment
• Agile development practices (team focus, continual improvement, automated tests, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming)
• Effective communication
• Self-motivation and self-management

Qualifications

BSc or BTech majoring in Computer Science will be advantageous, however, your ability to demonstrate your in-depth understanding of the web technologies and sound software engineering practices will trump a formal qualification. A minimum of 5+ years of software development experience. Minimum of 2 years supporting a large-scale application in an operational capacity.