Software Engineer
Webhosting · Durbanville, South Africa ·
- Category
- Software engineering
Software engineer at xneelo, a web hosting provider, doing full-stack product development on large-scale hosting infrastructure with a particular strength in front-end work. Day to day involves end-to-end feature ownership, backend automation challenges, and Agile team delivery.
Job Description
At xneelo, it starts with purpose. We’re business enablers offering a hosting service for our customers to create and transact online. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ‘trusted in hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.
A large scale, mass-market hosting infrastructure is a complex beast requiring quality automation and processes to make sure it can scale and perform optimally, 24x7x365.
Product development at xneelo looks to the engineering of the backend infrastructure as a vital component of being able to delight our customers – by being part of transforming complexity into click‑of‑a‑button simplicity.
We are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using Agile principles and the latest technology available.
We work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the xneelo ecosystem and require an understanding of the Agile development philosophy.
Like what you hear? Well, let’s break it down:
Basically, you will be involved in
- Full-stack development with a passion for end-to-end development and ownership across the stack, with a particular interest and strength in front-end development.
- Solving interesting and large-scale backend technical challenges
- Being part of figuring out how we get better at what we do
- Looking for opportunities to innovate and optimize
- Understanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders, of course)
- Supporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team
You probably have a passion for
- Programming, open-source technologies, and IT in general
- Optimal systems and simple procedures
- Agile development and a self‑organizing team environment