A bit about us
Picup is a SaaS logistics management platform for medium-large businesses who require an integrated tech-driven solution from the distribution centre to the customer. Our Fleet Management System is a sophisticated web-based platform and driver mobile app with telematics that gives complete visibility to manage and track your entire fleet. Picup additionally has our own fleet of drivers that powers on demand and scheduling delivery technologies, with ambitions to expand into other logistics segments. These versatile technologies power us to be the number one logistics platform in Africa.
Are you curious, innovative and passionate? Do you take ownership, embrace challenges, and love problem-solving?
A Full Stack Developer who will help us continue to build industry disruptive tech products and revolutionise the way our customers use technology.
You want to
- Design and develop scalable web applications and APIs for global use
- Write high quality code that adheres to coding standards and is performant
- Work with state-of-the-art design patterns and technologies such as Event Sourcing/Event Store
- Work with real-time distributed systems and queueing technologies
- Create and modify functions and stored procedures in SQLServer
- Be independent and take full responsibility for development of modules / features
- Be able to deep dive into the technical aspects needed for application runtime and cost optimisation, including SQL optimisation and database indexing
- Design and develop scalable, feature-rich web applications using Angular and Redux
- Consume REST APIs, Realtime Databases and GraphQL to power applications
- Work with UI/UX designers to implement user-friendly solutions
- Implement future focus Micro-Frontend based applications
- Introduce new technologies into the team based on fit and suitability to deliver a solution
Requirements
- BS Computer Science degree or equivalent industry experience
- Strong experience in Angular, including concepts such as components, services, and RxJS
- Proficiency in Tailwind CSS for responsive and efficient UI development
- Extensive experience in programming with C# (.Net Core and .Net Framework 4 and above)
- Strong experience in working with Relational Databases, experience in SQLServer and PostgreSQL a plus
- Experience in consuming and feeding Web API's (SOAP / REST) from first and third parties
- Strong understanding of SQL
- Strong knowledge and understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns
- HTML/CSS experience, including concepts like cross-browser compatibility and layout
- Ability to deep dive into the technical aspects needed for optimization of web applications
- Understand business requirements and how they translate into a technical approach
- Creative thinking backed by strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong teamwork, co-ordination, and planning, self-driven, and ability to work at pace in a dynamic organization
Additional Experience (Advantageous)
- Experience with real-time data visualization and dashboard design
- Mapping technologies (Google Maps, Here Maps, Leaflet)
- Experience designing microservices and distributed applications
- Queueing technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- CQRS and Event Sourcing design patterns
- Strong knowledge of a cloud platform (Azure and GCP)
- Agile development methodologies
- Distributed source control systems (Git)
- Performance/analytics tools for web applications and databases
- Continuous integration and deployment technologies (Github actions, azure pipelines)
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Unit testing, test-driven development, static code analysis
- Linux server experience
