SynthaSite offers one of the very few opportunities to work in South Africa on truly large-scale Internet application problems, and I think we offer one of the best work environments in South Africa at the same time. Great kit and cool gadgets, daily lunch and a well-stocked pantry, flexible hours and location where it makes sense, an agile (and Agile) environment, awesome people (me, for example), and more challenging work than you thought possible.
There are two positions open in the Systems department at the SynthaSite Cape Town offices. The Systems departments helps in pretty much every part of the company, but our main focus is on delivering a reliable experience to every user, no matter how many happen to arrive at a particular time, by providing a robust and scalable platform as well as guidance to the engineers on how to take advantage of it.
You know your stuff, and you're passionate about it. You favour doing some stuff up-front to save time later, since laziness is a virtue. But you also believe that "You Ain't Gonna Need It" should always be kept in mind. You'll fight for a simpler solution that solves the underlying problem — simple is better than complex. And you'll keep your sense of humour during periods of high pressure.
You'll be maintaining infrastructure for developers, developing RESTful web services, crafting scripts to transform legacy data, diagnosing all sorts of problems quickly and accurately, and writing tests, user stories, reports and graphs, and whatever else that comes up that you think you can help with.
Compensation is attractive, from base salary through money-saving perks to company shares. There's also a good chance you'll visit our San Francisco offices and attend international conferences at least once a year.
Send your CV to careers@synthasite.com with the subject "Application for Systems and Service Engineer position in Cape Town" (aren't job titles hard to come up with?).