Xneelo Vacancies

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1. Backend Software Engineer
2. Backend Software Engineer (Ruby/Linux)
3. Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer

Job description

Xneelo is a web hosting company – we see ourselves as business enablers, stimulating the economy by helping the business mass market to interact and transact online.

At xneelo, our backend software engineers are tasked with providing a world-class API layer between the customer and their hosting services. As a backend software engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining secure, consistent and reliable infrastructure and services that enable our customers to manage their hosting services in a dynamic and ever-changing environment. You will be part of a cross-functional engineering team that will architect both the services and underlying hardware/software supporting infrastructures to provide and support these API’s.

Our position as a large-scale, mass-market hosting company comes with a very unique set of complex challenges that require a team that is able to creatively solve these in an innovative fashion. As a potential candidate for this team, you will be expected to tackle problem spaces that require you to apply industry-standard software development practices, expand our CI implementation, solve scaling problems and many more in order to provide a reliable and performant platform that our customers have come to expect.

Product development at xneelo looks to the engineering of the backend infrastructure as a vital component of being able to delight our customers – by being part of transforming complexity into click-of-a-button simplicity.

We are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using Agile principles and the latest technology available.

We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the xneelo ecosystem and require commitment to and understanding of the Agile (Scrum) development philosophy. 

Job requirements

The ideal candidate will have a passion for:

• Technology to serve operational and client requirements
• Programming, open source Technologies and IT in general
• Optimal systems and simple procedures
• Agile development and a self-organising team environment
• Sharing ideas and innovation
• Test-driven development mindset

A high level of proficiency in the following:

• Backend and API software design & development
• Ruby (language currently in use), Java, Go, Python or PHP (we’re happy for you to transition to Ruby)
• Database design and architecture (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Mongodb, etc.)
• Software development within the Linux/Unix environment
• Strong familiarity with Linux fundamentals (Debian/Ubuntu etc)
• Agile development practices (team focus, continual improvement, automated tests, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming)
• Object-oriented programming
• Effective communication
• Self-motivated and self-managing
• Understanding the true cost of a temporary solution and pursuing projects to their full completion

Advantageous skills:

• Configuration management or code deployment at scale (Puppet, Ansible, Capistrano)
• Familiarity with containers (Docker or lxc)
• Container orchestration knowledge (Helm charts, Kubernetes deployment)

What you’ll do

• Solve interesting and large-scale backend technical challenges
• Be part of figuring out how we get better at what we do
• Look for opportunities to innovate and optimise
• In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders, understand the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions

Qualifications

• BSc or BTech majoring in Computer Science will be advantageous, however your ability to demonstrate your track record of writing quality backend software in production is what ultimately counts
• 5+ years software development experience

At xneelo, our sincere desire is that our team members are inspired by their success and able to operate with a high level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values. We hope this appeals to you and look forward to hearing from you.

Backend Software Engineer (Ruby/Linux)

Job description

Our backend software engineers make sure that when a customer hits a button in a Web application, magic happens on hosting infrastructure in a data centre somewhere in the world.

A large scale, mass-market hosting infrastructure is a complex beast requiring quality automation and processes to make sure it can scale and perform optimally, 24x7x365.

Product development at xneelo looks to the engineering of the backend infrastructure as a vital component of being able to delight our customers – by being part of transforming complexity into click-of-a-button simplicity.

We are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using Agile principles and the latest technology available.

We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the xneelo ecosystem and require an understanding of the Agile development philosophy.

Like what you hear? Well, let’s break it down:

Basically, you will be involved in

• Solving interesting and large scale backend technical challenges
• Being part of figuring out how we get better at what we do
• Looking for opportunities to innovate and optimize
• Understanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders of course)
• Supporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team

You probably have a passion for

• Programming, open-source Technologies and IT in general
• Optimal systems and simple procedures
• Agile development and a self-organizing team environment
• Sharing ideas and innovation

Job requirements

You have a passion for

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

Your qualifications include

• BSc majoring in Computer Science will be advantageous, however, your ability to demonstrate your track record of writing quality backend software is what ultimately counts
• A minimum of 4+ years of software development experience
• Minimum of 2 years supporting a large scale application in an operational capacity

If your experience includes the following, it would be great

• Thinking like a hacker and diving into the security details of the software you’ve built
• Experience with Rancher, Docker Swarm or other container orchestration platforms
• Understanding of database design and performance tuning (MySQL, Redis, etc.)
• Experience with DevOps on a linux based platform
• Experience with system administration on a linux based platform

Software Engineer

Job description

Would you be eager to continually improve customer value and internal efficiency through quality, innovative software? Our Managed Hosting team could use your skills, passion and experience to develop solutions that will help keep thousands of websites online.

We are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using agile principles and the latest technology available. We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the xneelo ecosystem and require commitment to and understanding of the Agile (Scrum) development philosophy. The software development team is based at the company’s head office in the Tygervalley area in the Western Cape.

As a Software Developer, you will form part of a team that will be responsible for the development, integration and maintenance of in-house developed and 3rd party web applications, providing innovative tools to the power user, ensuring a seamless, intuitive hosting experience to our customers.

Overall disposition

The ideal candidate will have a passion for:

• Technology to serve operational and client requirements
• Programming, open-source Technologies and IT in general
• 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

• 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
• Linux systems administration skill will be an advantage

Job requirements

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.

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All the best with your applications.