OM Bank – Lead Python Backend Engineer

Overview

OM Bank – Lead Python Backend Engineer Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at Old Mutual

Description

Lead the development and maintenance of applications and systems for assigned functional areas or business units. Includes systems analysis and The role of the Lead Serverless Backend Engineer is responsible for understanding requirements and leading the design and development of solutions under a serverless architecture model. The Serverless Backend Engineer reports directly to the Product Owner and the Chapter Leader.

KEY RESULT AREAS

Build solutions from requirements received from product owner

Be able to work in agile environment.

Able to build POC solutions and demonstrate/present.

Maintain a stable server with zero downtime

Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and elective technical solution.

Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle

Develop tools and applications by producing clean, code

Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting

Review and debug code

Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle

Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions

Mentor junior engineers

Collaborate with team to brainstorm and create new products

Be able to report on his work using agile tools such as JIRA.

Be able to elaborate and document their work in confluence.

Communicative and proactive.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

AWS components such as Lambda, SQS , Dynamo DB

AWS API Gateway

Terraform

Python 3.9

Pytest

Knowledge of Rest API integrations

Openapi, swagger

Git Hub actions for CI CD

Docker and Docker compose

Makefile

Apache velocity language

Proven experience as a Back-end developer

Skills

Action Planning, Action Planning, Adaptive Thinking, Agile Project Management, Budget Management, Change Management, Current State Assessment, Data Compilation, Evaluating Information, Executing Plans, Futures Thinking, Gap Analysis, IT Implementation, Learning and Development (L&D), Managing Stakeholder Expectations, Oral Communications, Policies & Procedures, Project Life Cycle Management, Project Performance Management (PM), Project Quality Assurance, Project Reporting, Project Risk Management, Project Schedule Management, Project Scope Management, Project Strategy {+ 1 more}

Competencies

Business Insight Collaborates Communicates  Effectively Courage Cultivates  Innovation Customer Focus Decision Quality Develops Talent

Education

Closing Date

30 July 2026 , 23:59

Title: OM Bank – Lead Python Backend Engineer

Company: Old Mutual

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

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