# Senior Software Engineer

Who are we? Sanlam Life and Savings (SLS) is one of Sanlam’s core business clusters, bringing together life insurance, retirement, savings and investment capabilities to help clients build and protect their financial futures. SLS Technology is at the heart of this ambition. We are modernising our technology landscape, strengthening our engineering capability and building product-aligned teams that take end-to-end accountability for the technology they create, from design and build through to running, enhancing and continuously improving it. Job Description SLS Technology is looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Life Annuities Technology team. This is a senior, hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives on solving complex technical problems, designing scalable systems and setting a high engineering standard for others. Working closely with the Tech Lead, Product Management and Design, you will help shape technical solutions and turn business and customer needs into secure, reliable and maintainable technology. Our philosophy is simple: Build it. Own it. You will take meaningful ownership across the full technology lifecycle, from solution design and

- **Id**: 3966022
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sanlam-senior-software-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T14:14:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T20:14:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7278
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property & Casualty Insurance, Asset Management & Funds, Life Insurance & Annuities

## Company

- **Id**: 2194082
- **Name**: Sanlam
- **Domain**: sanlam.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sanlam-co-za>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T14:14:47Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 3
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T01:06:29Z

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