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Deadline of this Job: 20 December 2022

What You'll Do
• Develop MAAS core components and features to make MAAS the #1 bare metal cloud system.
• Shape the architecture of MAAS to make it simpler, faster and easier to use.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure MAAS works well with other tools and is released on time.
• Contribute your improvements to our continuous integration environment, tests and practices, to maintain fast feedback and good test coverage.
• Contribute to documentation of current and existing features, making it world-class resource for Data Centre operators and users.
• Provide technical communication and collaboration with other teams where appropriate.
• Take personal ownership of problems and drive them to solutions.
• Travel internationally a few times a year to meet and collaborate with your and other teams.

Who You Are
• At least 5 years of proven professional software development experience in Python, Go or similar.
• Capacity to learn quickly about new systems and techniques
• Excellent logic, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
• Strong English language communication skills - both written and verbal
• Experience with Linux server technologies, including but not limited to Virtualization (KVM), Containers (LXC), etc.
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Knowledge of network technologies, including PXE, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, NTP
• Some experience with Baseboard Management Controllers and Protocols (Redfish, IPMI, AMT and others)
• Strong experience with networking, storage technologies and Cloud hosting and infrastructure.
• Ideally, experience of large-scale physical server provisioning and automation, including rapid deployment, configuration, management and service orchestration.
• Familiarity with some of the open source development tools and methodologies used in creation of several Ubuntu projects (MAAS, Juju, Ubuntu Server, LXD, Ubuntu Core), such as Launchpad, Debian packaging tools (APT, dpkg) and snapcraft.


Deadline of this Job: 19 December 2022

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will
• You like to put your people and teammates first; you bring your most empathetic self to work.
• You like to take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes using data to guide your decisions
• You’ve already embraced DevOps is a culture, and you know that teams delivering code, infrastructure, and operational support can give the best results.
• You know how to empower teams to deliver their best work.
• Working in a team makes you happy and you like collaborating with other teams to grow and improve the department and wider business.

We’re excited about you because you have experience with
• You have experience in building microservices, or high availability event driven platforms
• You’ve gained experience architecting and designing end to end systems.
• Have commercial experience with C#.NET you’ve shipped high-quality backend code into production.
• Ideally have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools With a DevOps culture
• Ideally have knowledge of the financial services industry and the African market
• Understand that people's problems are the hardest problems.
• Challenge the status quo but understand pragmatic decisions.
• Enjoy working with cross-functional teams and collaborating with leads and product managers to deliver change that improves our customers’ lives.
• Come to work to learn and share your knowledge, ideas, and thought processes to solve the challenges ahead of you.


Deadline of this Job: 19 December 2022

You’re excited about this opportunity because
• You put your people and teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work.
• You take a product-focused approach and lead changes with data, lead a team of engineers.
• You embrace DevOps mindset and understand the benefits it brings to the team.
• You know how to empower teams to deliver their best work and support their skill development.
• You understand system design, event-driven microservices and enjoy working in medium/large scale distributed systems (help us scale 2M user platform to 10M).
• You're keen on getting into detail of our Backend and Android architecture, understand our systems from what they do to how they benefit our customers.
• You are an advocate of CI / CD best practices and understand the importance of writing clean code.
• You foster growth in individuals and in team’s capabilities.

We’re excited about you because you
• Understand that DevOps is a culture. You know how to work with infrastructure as code, observability and automated testing.
• Enjoy working in multi-functional Domain teams, collaborating on issues and deep-diving into features to improve our customers' lives.
• You have strong commercial experience with C#.NET and microservices, as well as shipping high-quality backend code into production.
• You have experience with Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools.

Our stack
• We primarily use .NET for our backend and Kotlin for our Android apps
• Our teams use some flavour of Scrum where they keep track of their work in Azure DevOps, which we also use for our CI/CD
• Our cloud provider is Azure, where our microservices are hosted in Azure Kubernetes Services
• We are building a whole new set of microservices based on Event-Driven Architecture patterns
• We are a team of passionate product-focused engineers committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel value

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