Software Engineer

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

Design, build and support secure backend services, APIs, integrations and data services for core financial services platforms. This includes insurance and asset management platforms, and extends to other core platforms required to support banking, investment, customer, operational or regulatory journeys. The role focuses on API-first engineering, system integration, service reliability, data quality, security, deployment readiness and production support. 

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: First Degree

Field of Study: Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field

Preferred Certifications - Cloud fundamentals, API/security certification, Agile/DevOps, database fundamentals or related backend engineering certification 

Experience Required

3-5 Years

• Experience in backend development, API engineering, or systems integration.
• Hands-on software development experience using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, or other comparable backend technologies.
• Experience in unit testing, API documentation, environment preparation and readiness, release management support, and production issue troubleshooting.
• Exposure to the insurance, asset management, banking, or broader financial services industry will be an added advantage.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Checking Things
• Developing Expertise
• Managing Tasks
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Backend development; API engineering; Microservices
• System integration; database design/querying; event-driven patterns
• CI/CD; automated and unit testing
• Swagger/OpenAPI documentation
• Security engineering; monitoring/logging
• Design Thinking
• Systems Design
• Production troubleshooting
• Data quality; reconciliation and reporting support.