Senior Full Stack Developer, Product Systems, Johannesburg

You’ll work on the tools our Product, Local Operations, Buying, and Marketing teams use to build all aspects of the products sold by G Adventures and its group of businesses. You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining a collection of front-end and backend-end applications which work in cohesion with our API-driven infrastructure. You’ll work in a small and distributed team, where communication, empathy, and support of each other are key to our success as a people-first culture.

What You'll be Doing:

• Integrate into the team quickly. Deploy often and early
• Write short specs and prototypes to test new ideas
• Write unit tests for the new code that you craft. Improve test coverage, follow development standards
• Ensure your code is designed with maintainability in mind Nurture the applications and tools, through working with stakeholders and understanding their needs
• Work with the team to prototype wireframes and similar as we plan larger features. A keen eye for the user experience is very welcome
• Work with other software teams to improve system communications and performance
• Explore and review new technologies, for improvement opportunities
• Participate in design and regular code reviews; helping your colleagues do their best
• Desired Skills and Experience:
• 7+ years of experience working in Python is necessary, Django is a plus
• 5+ years of experience working in React
• Fundamental HTML & CSS knowledge
• Deep familiarity with browser behaviour and tooling. Request/response, DOM, devtools, etc
• Comfort navigating the command line, especially with git
• Understanding of common application stacks (nginx, node.js, uwsgi, etc.)
• Design sensibilities, both in UX and code craftsmanship PostgreSQL familiarity; digging in when addressing performance issues, can wrangle SQL queries
• Working with microservice architectures is a plus ? Understanding of the full web stack – from browser to server and back