Software Engineer

Sanlam

Software Engineer building governed agentic engineering infrastructure inside Sanlam's AWS tenant. Developing AI workflows, safeguards, observability and developer tools for regulated financial services.

Posted 8/25/2026full-timeCape Town • 🇿🇦 South AfricaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating agentic workflows, integrating agents into engineering flows, and utilizing AWS services for production systems. Proficient in programming languages such as Java, TypeScript, and Python, with a strong focus on incident triage, observability, and security best practices.

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AWS Production Systems ExperienceHands-On Experience with LLM APIsProficiency in Java, TypeScript, and PythonExperience with Agent Orchestration FrameworksUnderstanding of Security Risks and Mitigations

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringAgentic Coding ToolsMulti-Agent OrchestrationIncident TriageCode ReviewData StructuresAlgorithmsScalabilityRobustnessDistributed Systems

Soft Skills

CoachingCommunicationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

DatadogCloudWatchCodeshipAWS LambdaECS/ContainersKinesisDynamoDBS3VPCIAM

Certifications & Qualifications

Relevant Degree or Diploma in Computer Science or IT

Industry Keywords

Agentic WorkflowsPrompt ManagementContext ManagementObservabilitySecurity-by-Default MindsetData ResidencyPOPIALeast-Privilege RBACAudit Trails

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsDynamoDBJavaPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Take ownership of new capabilities across the pod's five focus areas and deliver them from concept to production inside Sanlam's AWS tenant
Build and operate agentic workflows, including multi-agent orchestration, MCP tool integrations, context/memory services and security guardrails
Integrate agents into engineering flows including BFF/microservice feature delivery, local runners, acceptance tests and incident triage
Use Datadog, CloudWatch and dead-letter queues for incident triage and resolution
Author reusable AI skills, prompts and team-context packages for Sanlam engineers
Measure evaluations, latency, token cost-per-feature and reliability of agent runs
Feed results into Codeship cockpit metrics
Participate in code reviews and improve development, testing and operational practices
Participate in on-call for the platform and handle incidents
Identify and reduce technical debt
Lead small projects or components with minimal supervision
Coach engineers across Sanlam on working effectively with agents

Requirements

What you’ll need

Relevant Degree or Diploma (BSc Computer Science, IT or equivalent experience)
5+ years of experience in Software Engineering
Production systems experience on AWS or equivalent
Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs such as Anthropic, Bedrock or OpenAI
Experience with tool use/function calling, structured output, prompt management and context management
Demonstrable daily use of agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot agents or similar
Proficiency in Java, TypeScript and Python
Ability to read, review and understand code, including agent-written code
Ability to articulate language differences and build and execution processes
Understanding of retrieval, embeddings, memory patterns, knowledge graphs and vector stores
Experience with agent orchestration frameworks or hand-rolled agent loops
Experience building evaluations and observability for non-deterministic systems
Awareness of prompt-injection, data-exfiltration and privilege-escalation risks and mitigations
Ability to reason about data structures, algorithms, scalability, robustness and distributed systems
AWS experience with Lambda, ECS/containers, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, IAM and Cognito preferred
Understanding of monitoring, metrics, health, fault tolerance, APIs, authentication, databases, persistence and event-driven architectures
Security-by-default mindset covering data residency, POPIA, least-privilege RBAC and audit trails

Benefits

Comp & perks

Career growth and development opportunities
Diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace
Opportunities across Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, MiWay and Group Office