OM Bank - Lead Python Backend Engineer
Old Mutual Limited · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Lead the design and development of serverless backend solutions and maintain stable systems with zero downtime. Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions while mentoring junior engineers.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires proven experience as a back-end developer with expertise in Python 3.9 and AWS serverless components. Proficiency in CI/CD tools, Terraform, and Agile methodologies is essential.
Full description
Let's Write Africa's Story Together!
Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job 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
- GitHub 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
The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
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