Senior Software Engineer -Cloud Infrastructure

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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng
In-Office
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Software
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer leads software design, development, and testing for cloud-based solutions, mentors team members, and promotes innovation and technical excellence.
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nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.


 

Leads planning, designing, development and testing of simple software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools. Guides team to support clients' project objectives. Troubleshoots client issues as they arise.


 

  • Essential Functions:
  • Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools (AWS CDK, or similar), ensuring consistency, repeatability, and version control.
  • Own and operate core AWS services including compute (ECS, Lambda), databases (RDS, DynamoDB), container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes), and serverless technologies.
  • Collaborate directly with application development teams to understand their infrastructure needs and enable them with scalable, reliable platform capabilities.
  • Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership on infrastructure design decisions, considering scalability, reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Implement and maintain security best practices across AWS infrastructure, including IAM policies, network security, encryption, and access controls.
  • Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to enable efficient and safe software delivery.
  • Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud costs, identifying opportunities for cost reduction while maintaining performance and reliability.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response efforts for production infrastructure issues, including root cause analysis and preventive measures.
  • Lead proof-of-concepts to validate new AWS services, architectural approaches, or infrastructure patterns before broader adoption.
  • Mentor team members on AWS best practices, infrastructure as code techniques, and cloud-native design patterns.
  • Write clean, maintainable code and conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
  • Develop and maintain automated testing strategies for infrastructure code to ensure reliability and prevent regressions.
  • Proactively identify and address technical debt, focusing on improving infrastructure reliability, maintainability, and developer experience.
  • Stay current with AWS service updates and cloud infrastructure trends, evaluating and introducing relevant technologies that benefit the platform.
  • Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures to ensure knowledge sharing and team effectiveness.
  • Facilitate effective communication and collaboration within the platform engineering team and across cross-functional teams.
  • Support strategic planning around infrastructure roadmap priorities in alignment with business objectives and application team needs.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience/proficiency or a combination of education and experience
  • Proficiency in at least one major programming language
  • Demonstrated commitment to quality and continuous improvement
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in teams.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Desired:

  • Strong familiarity with AWS RDS database services and database engineering principles, including performance tuning, backup/recovery strategies, and high availability configurations
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Background working in platform engineering or internal developer platform teams
  • Proven track record of designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure at scale
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.)


 

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.


 

nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [email protected]

Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success.  We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. 

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The Company
HQ: Wilmington, NC
1,263 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Ncino is a cloud-based bank operating solution for the financial services industry.

nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO) is the worldwide leader in cloud banking. The nCino Bank Operating System® empowers financial institutions with scalable technology to help them achieve revenue growth, greater efficiency, cost savings and regulatory compliance. In a digital-first world, nCino's single digital platform enhances the employee and client experience to enable financial institutions to more effectively onboard new clients, make loans and manage the entire loan life cycle, and open deposit and other accounts across lines of business and channels. Transforming how financial institutions operate through innovation, reputation and speed, nCino works with more than 1,200 financial institutions globally, whose assets range in size from $30 million to more than $2 trillion.

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