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We’re business enablers offering a hosting service for our customers to create and transact online. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ‘trusted in hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.\nA large scale, mass-market hosting infrastructure is a complex beast requiring quality automation and processes to make sure it can scale and perform optimally, 24x7x365.\nProduct development at xneelo looks to the engineering of the backend infrastructure as a vital component of being able to delight our customers - by being part of transforming complexity into click-of-a-button simplicity.\nWe are passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software and aim to build lasting solutions using Agile principles and the latest technology available.\nWe work together in autonomous teams that take full responsibility for their own part of the xneelo ecosystem and require an understanding of the Agile development philosophy.\nLike what you hear? Well, let’s break it down:\n\nBasically, you will be involved in\nFull-stack development with a passion for end-to-end development and ownership across the stack, with a particular interest and strength in front-end development.\n\nSolving interesting and large-scale backend technical challenges\n\nBeing part of figuring out how we get better at what we do\n\nLooking for opportunities to innovate and optimize\n\nUnderstanding the needs of the customer in order to deliver innovative, robust solutions (In collaboration with the Product Owner and stakeholders, of course)\n\nSupporting the customer from an operational perspective when escalated by the Client Services team\n\nYou probably have a passion for\nProgramming, open-source technologies, and IT in general\n\nOptimal systems and simple procedures\n\nAgile development and a self-organizing team environment\n\nSharing ideas and innovation\n\nRequirements\nYou have a passion for\nDesign & development of backend software and APIs\n\nFront-end development (React, Angular or Vue)\n\nObject-oriented programming using a language like Ruby\n\nSoftware development within the Linux/Unix environment\n\nSoftware development using a containerization platform like Docker or Kubernetes\n\nAgile development practices (team focus, continual improvement, automated tests, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming)\n\nEffective communication\n\nSelf-motivation and self-management\n\nLife-Long Learning\n\nYour qualifications include\nBSc majoring in Computer Science will be advantageous, however, your ability to demonstrate your track record of writing quality backend software is what ultimately counts\n\nA minimum of 4+ years of software development experience\n\nMinimum of 2 years supporting a large scale application in an operational capacity\n\nIf your experience includes the following, it would be great\nThinking like a hacker and diving into the security details of the software you’ve built\n\nExperience with Rancher, Docker Swarm or other container orchestration platforms\n\nUnderstanding of database design and performance tuning (MySQL, Redis, etc.)\n\nExperience with DevOps on a linux based platform\n\nExperience with system administration on a linux based platform","description_format":"text","description_chars":3363,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"South Africa","iso":"ZA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T08:30:11Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:7","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T00:19:42Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/xneelo-software-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/xneelo-software-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T00:19:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":152,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4848,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}