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Specialist Product Engineer Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at Absa Bank
Specialist Product Engineer
Apply remote type Hybrid locations Cape Town time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago time left to apply End Date:
February 10, 2025 (16 days left to apply) job requisition  R-
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of thisexcitinggrowth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
The CIB Technology, Absa Access Core Frameworks Feature team is looking for a .Net Specialist Product Engineer, based in Cape Town to applycritical thinking&problem solvingskills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
Job Description
Absa Access is a Pan-African, single sign-on platform that gives clients standardised, secure, and near real-time access to their business portfolios and the banking services. This enables them to make informed decisions to drive the growth of their businesses, managing their finances with the speed and intelligence that the platform provides.
You will work on the award winning Absa Access Online platform, comprising of a core framework that offers services and an extensible application environment. The platform is underpinned primarily by .Net Core micro-services, a message bus andopen sourcetechnologies, deployed via Kubernetes, into a cloud-hosted environment.
Key critical skills and experience required:
B.Sc. Computer Science or Diploma in Software Engineering
Min 5 years relevant software development experience
Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages eg. C#
Experience with Kafka eventing, securing Kafka topics and practical experience of implementing listeners for events using C# .NET
Proficient in querying Mongo
DB and Postgre
SQL, as well as practical experience of using .NET, to read and write from the aforementioned databases
Practical experience using Blazor .NET (advantageous)
Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
Some understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, Type Script, HTML, CSS
Some experience / understanding with appropriate unit testing framework(s) eg xUnit
Affinity fordebuggingandproblem-solving
Familiar with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
Key Accountabilities:
A team player is required to form part of a small development team, but collaborating with other small teams who have similar responsibilities, forming part of the greater ABSA Access Core Frameworks team
Applycritical thinking,design thinkingandproblem-solving skillsin an agileteam environmentto solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability &resilience
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Title: Specialist Product Engineer
Company: Absa Bank
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Category: IT/Tech, Software Development
