StructureIt is a growing software consultancy in the capital markets, with offices in the UK, South Africa, Mauritius, Thailand and New Zealand. We build mission critical software and data solutions for both major multi-national financial institutions and smaller organisations.

What you’ll do 

We are looking for a talented developer to join our team. The role involves building and operating a content management platform for a high profile big data project that promises to revolutionise an area of finance by providing unprecedented market insight in a timely manner. You'll be working closely within a team of developers distributed in London, Johannesburg, Cape Town and New Zealand.

The role will involve building and operating an ingestion and analytics service on a cloud platform that collects frequently changing data and exposing the normalised and aggregated data via APIs to our client. This includes data cleansing, aggregation, and financial computations.

Requirements

• To be the type of developer that can pick up a new technology quickly and deliver features in a highly agile manner.
• To have used Apache Spark in a production system using Python
• Experience in writing testable, production grade, end to end ETL pipeline using Python/PySpark.
• Experience of using a cloud platform to architect and build data pipelines, ideally AWS.
• To easily navigate the administration of an Hadoop cluster on a cloud platform.
• To have used Docker containers to deploy your systems

What you will learn from the role

• We try and automate as much as possible to streamline our processes. This includes continuous integration and deployment.
• Quality is very important to us, and through automated testing we strive to keep the quality of our systems as high as possible.
• Working with large sets of data and using distributed databases.
• Lean project management.
• The potential for learning and working in another language like Java, Scala or .Net Core.
• To understand basic concepts about mortgage backed securities.
• End to end exposure to a cloud platform.

Benefits

• Working
  • Fully remote working / or from the office with daily lunch
  • Flexible working hours
  • High-spec Dell laptop
  • Money towards a keyboard of your choice, that is yours to keep
• Insurance - fully paid on top of, not out of your salary
  • Medical Aid, including Gap Cover
  • Life Insurance, with Disability Insurance and Funeral cover
• Learning
  • Learning Budget - Books or Courses - you choose how to use it
• Culture
  • Employee-first culture that encourages work/life balance
  • Everyone has a voice, regardless of title
  • Psychological safety
  • Annual company outings (last 5 years - 3-day Sun City trip)
• Leave
  • 20 days annual leave
  • Paid Maternity, Paternity, Study & Moving leave
• Long-Term Loyalty Benefits
  • 2 years - monthly budget towards a cell phone contract OR petrol card
  • 3 years - the right to apply for a bursary
  • 5 years - 3 additional days annual leave
  • 7 years - a local weekend away 
  • 10 years - 3 month paid sabbatical

Interested?

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