Jobs at Untapped Global

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining web applications
• Assessing the efficiency and speed of current applications
• Writing high-quality code and adhering to our Software Development principles
• Performing code reviews
• Troubleshooting and debugging
• Keeping on top of new technologies
• Contributing to discussion on product and code architecture

Technical Skill Set:

• Proficiency in Python 3, Async.io, including Django, the Django-rest framework, FastAPI, and Flask
• Must have knowledge of SDLC
• Knowledge of scaling applications to handle the load changes and a large amount of data traffic
• Knowledge of accessibility and security compliances
• Knowledge of version control such as Git and GitHub
• Knowledge of common testing frameworks(Linear Scripting, Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, Table-Driven, etc.)
• Knowledge of deploying and hosting on cloud solutions via AWS
• Good knowledge of user data security best practices
• Knowledge how to avoid race conditions is a plus

What you will bring to Untapped:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years’ experience as a back-end or full-stack developer building web applications
• Experience leading and managing teams of developers
• Maturity,self-awareness, empathy, a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a positive attitude
• Proven experience in the following areas:
  • Deploying and working with databases- Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
  • Designing core, back-end software components
  • Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
  • Microservices architecture
  • Writing tests
  • Working using asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers(Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
  • Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
• It’s a plus if you have:
  • Experience with Kubernetes and resource management
  • HTML and JavaScript experience
  • Experience working in the consumer privacy, consumer data, or financial industries

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Key duties and responsibilities:

• Building and maintaining web applications
• Writing high-quality code
• QA testing
• Troubleshooting and debugging
• Keeping on top of new technologies
• Contributing to discussion on product and code architecture

Technical Skill Set:

• Knowledge on any of the following python frameworks: FastAPI, Django (including Django-rest framework) and Flask
• Knowledge of scaling applications to handle the load changes that are a large amount of data traffic
• Knowledge of accessibility and security compliances
• Knowledge of version control such as Git and GitHub
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of deploying and hosting is a plus
• Knowledge on any of the following: AWS, Heroku, Google Cloud Platform is a plus. These all are cloud-hosting markets. Heroku is a container-based cloud platform service (PaaS) and AWS is a cloud platform that provides IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS, and SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Knowledge of user data security best practices is a plus

What you will bring to Untapped:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 1+ years’ experience as a back-end or full-stack engineer building web applications
• Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals and software design principles
• Maturity,self-awareness, empathy, a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a positive attitude
• Experience in the following areas:
  • Writing tests
  • Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
  • In at least one with databases – Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
  • Designing core, backend software components
  • Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
• It’s a plus if you have:
  • Working using asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers(Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
  • Experience with Kubernetes, microservices, and resource management
  • HTML and Javascript experience
  • Experience working in the consumer privacy or consumer data industries, React, HTMX
    and automation tools
• Strong motivation to learn new skills and best practices to get to the top 3% back-end
  developers

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Key duties and responsibilities:

• Build, operate, and support highly available, fault tolerant, observable, performant, secure, and scalable platform tools and systems in a microservice environment that enable the Untapped engineering team to build best-in-class products
• Develop and maintain solutions which automate the configuration, provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of all of our systems
• Ensure high availability and acceptable levels of performance for our applications
• Work closely with QA and software developers to automate workflows, release high quality and well-tested software, and troubleshoot production issues
• Supervise Untapped cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Own the implementation of CI/CD tooling and best practices
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Serve as a subject matter expert on observability and monitoring of distributed systems

What you will bring to Untapped:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (CS) or related discipline – equivalent industry experience and demonstrable knowledge may be used to replace this requirement
• 3+ years managing the deployment and environment strategy around distributed, scalable microservices software products
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with containerization tools like Kubernetes, Fargate, Docker, etc.
• Experience doing command-line troubleshooting and scripting on Linux
• Proficiency with GitHub and GitOps
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript
• A strong understanding of networking concepts (virtual networking, subnets, routing, load balancing, DNS, etc.), networking security and Infrastructure as Code
• A strong understanding of the Agile software development cycle
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Experience being a part of a multicultural, distributed team, ideally with some experience in Africa
• A passion for innovation and creative problem solving, and a strong curiosity to learn new things and to experiment
• A can-do attitude and the flexibility required to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment