About You

Are you an independent, highly skilled, passionate and dedicated technologist with a penchant for backend development?

Do you want to work for an innovative company that is just as invested in your progress? Then we want you!

About the Role

Software Engineers at Wazoku are responsible for developing and maintaining our SaaS platform and its integrations. Software engineers demonstrate strength and capabilities in backend or frontend technologies and are learning and growing to be full stack engineers. A Software Engineer is focused on delivery of tasks assigned to them. A Software Engineer works with other Engineers, Product Managers and Data Scientists throughout the software development life cycle. As a Software Engineer, you should be a team player with a keen eye for detail and problem-solving skills.

Software Engineers will be involved in new feature development and maintenance of our Platform written in TypeScript & Angular on the front-end and Django & DRF in the back end.

About Wazoku

Will you help to provide clean water to schools in Mexico? To find a better solution to protect astronauts? To invent the next multi-billion market breakthrough? At Wazoku, that’s exactly what we achieve as we; change the world, one idea at a time.

We do this through our enterprise innovation platform that help organisations to find that one person who has that one idea wherever they are to solve their smallest to biggest problems to generate solutions that truly change the world. We work with Global 2000 organisations from the likes of NASA to Nissan and GSK, helping them discover new products and services, continuous improvements, but also ways to sustain our planet.

Wouldn’t you want to be part of this? To be involved in a new breakthrough idea that helped change the world into a better place? If so – we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Produce clean, secure, well documented and performant code with adequate test coverage using Python/Django in the backend or AngularJS/Angular in the front end
Conduct and participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to best practices
Verify and deploy programs and systems
Work with other developers to build and maintain software, including automated tests
Understand fundamentals of Wazoku infrastructure
Provide expertise in addressing complex technical challenges and making informed decisions on technology selection and implementation strategies
Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

Requirements

Experienced web Engineer with a solid understanding of general web principals including web performance, security, REST APIs, responsive design & mobile constraints
Expertise in building enterprise SaaS applications
Expertise in Python and Django
Good grasp of general web principals including web performance, security, responsive design & mobile constraints
Experience with software design and development in a test-driven environment
Strong knowledge of distributed version control systems such as Git
Strong knowledge of software testing techniques such as unit, integration and automated browser testing
Experience with databases and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks
Excellent communication skills
Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities
Experience with software design and architectural principles
Proficient with Relational Database Design and SQL principles
Experience in JavaScript and knowledge of client-side frameworks such as Angular or React is advantageous.

At Wazoku we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Nice to have

Strong knowledge of client-side frameworks such as Angular or React
Demonstrated expertise in data analytics, data science, or machine learning.
Experience with data analysis, data visualization, and the use of analytics tools (e.g., Python, R, Tableau, Power BI, etc.).

Salary

$9,000,000 - $11,000,000

Benefits

$20+ USD contractual homeworking internet benefit
Birthday day of
Access to English lessons tailored to your needs
Thanks Ben benefits, including $40 per month to spend on personal well-being.
Excellent maternity and adoption policy – 18 weeks full pay and then a further 8 weeks at half pay if you wish to take it.
Excellent Paternity pay – 4 weeks to be taken the year of the birth of the child, 4 weeks to be taken in the second year after the birth of the child.
December one week shut down over the holiday period
Mental Health Services
Employee Referral Scheme – $500 bonus for every person you successfully refer

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