Senior Engineer (Integration)
Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Cape Town, Western Cape
Permanent
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Posted 01 April 2026 - Closing Date 15 April 2026

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Job Description

Your Purpose... 

  • Is to “change people’s lives for the better through wellness”;
  • We deliver social wellness experiences that enable people to meet their personal wellness goals, through holistic physical, mental nutritional and social wellbeing.
  • We are passionate about supporting people to lead healthy, fulfilled lives by providing a space where they can focus on their physical, mental and social well-being. Wellness can be confusing. We make it easy, honest, and welcoming for everyone.
  • As we transform into a Social Wellness Club, we’re redefining how we approach technology by building globally scalable solutions. A key part of this transformation is consolidating our core member engagement platform (our Mobile App and related services) under a central team. This team will own a unified codebase, enabling faster, more consistent feature rollouts across multiple countries.
  • We’re looking for a Senior Integration Engineer to design, build, and evolve the backend and integration services powering our Digital ecosystem and related platforms. You’ll be a hands-on senior engineer, delivering reliable, secure, and scalable software across internal and third-party systems, while taking ownership of more complex integration problem spaces through both feature delivery and operational responsibility. You’ll work closely with the Engineering Manager / Leads, Product Managers, Designers, QA, and front-end developers to deliver high-quality backend and integration solutions/services that align with our product and business goals. This is a hands-on senior engineering role, and you’ll be expected to deliver complex integration work, improve code quality and reliability, strengthen performance and testability, and help drive maintainable, scalable software and engineering practices. The role is backend and integration focused, while working closely with front-end teams to support end-to-end delivery.

Your Duties and Responsibilities...

Delivery & Ownership

  • Own the design, build, and evolution of complex backend services, APIs, and integration solutions supporting digital products and related platforms.
  • Lead technical input into discussions, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and estimation for more complex integration work.
  • Support and guide other engineers through high-quality code reviews, knowledge sharing, and strong engineering practices.
  • Set a strong example for clean, maintainable, and testable code aligned with team standards and agreed architecture.
  • Provide thoughtful code reviews and raise implementation quality through constructive technical feedback.

Technical Execution

  • Design, develop, and evolve solutions using C#, .NET, Azure Cloud, and API/event-driven patterns, making sound technical trade-offs for scalability and maintainability.
  • Partner with the Engineering Lead to strengthen engineering standards, architectural patterns, and development practices across the team.
  • Own delivery across internal platforms and third-party systems for more complex, business-critical, or high-dependency integrations.
  • Apply and reinforce strong engineering practices across coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, and secure software development.
  • Drive alignment with frontend and other consuming teams to ensure smooth integration design, service contracts, and end-to-end delivery quality.
  • Proactively identify and drive improvements in system reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across owned services and integrations.
  • Lead investigation and resolution of complex integration failures, defects, and performance issues across distributed services and partner integrations.
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment readiness, and release quality to increase delivery confidence and operational resilience.
  • Own the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of integration services through strong technical execution, operational judgment, and proactive improvement.

Operational Excellence

  • Lead complex incident resolution, drive root cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements to strengthen system resilience.
  • Identify and drive improvements to monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across integration services.
  • Make sound trade-off decisions that balance delivery speed with code quality, maintainability, resilience, and technical debt management.
  • Proactively identify risks, dependencies, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities early, and help drive the right technical response.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to shape robust technical solutions, surface technical trade-offs, and improve delivery quality.
  • Coordinate effectively with QA, Data, Operations, and frontend teams to deliver high-quality features and resolve cross-team technical challenges.
  • Communicate progress, technical constraints, trade-offs, and delivery risks clearly, and help drive alignment on the best technical path forward.
  • Play a leading role in agile ceremonies, especially for technical estimation, planning, and dependency/risk identification.
  • Drive strong engineering documentation, share knowledge proactively, and improve reusable development practices across the team.
  • Identify and drive improvements in automated testing, CI/CD, code quality tooling, and developer experience.
  • Proactively identify and champion opportunities to reduce technical debt, simplify solutions, and improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
  • Stay current with engineering practices and Azure best practices and help embed them into team delivery where valuable.
Our Minimum Requirements...

We can’t live without…

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep hands-on experience in backend development and systems integration.
  • Strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET, and Azure cloud services in production environments.
  • Strong experience building and evolving RESTful APIs, backend services, and integration solutions in Azure Cloud and related integration services.
  • Strong understanding of API-led, event-driven, and asynchronous integration patterns, with the ability to apply them to complex integration scenarios.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including clean code, testing, debugging, version control, and secure development practices, with consistent application across complex systems.
  • Strong exposure to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, and modern software delivery practices, including improvement of team practices.
  • Strong ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues across distributed systems, integrations, and third-party dependencies, including complex operational issues.
  • Strong experience working with internal and external systems to deliver successful end-to-end integrations, including higher-complexity or business-critical integrations.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams and influence better technical outcomes.
  • Strong experience with Azure integration services such as Service Bus, Logic Apps, Functions, and Event Grid.
  • Strong familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks and best practices.
  • Experience supporting mobile app ecosystems or product-centric digital platforms with complex backend/integration needs.
  • Demonstrated experience improving the scalability, reliability, and supportability of backend and integration systems.
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and asynchronous messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  • Prior experience working effectively with distributed, remote, or hybrid engineering teams.

 

Core Interpersonal Skills:

  • Emotional Intelligence- proven ability to anticipate the needs of others before they are voiced
  • Active Listening- Able to genuinely hear concerns with the ability to defuse tense situations and ensuring members and staff feel heard and valued
  • Cultural Awareness and Fluency- understand international norms, etiquette and diverse backgrounds to provide a welcoming environment for our international and VIP members
  • Empathy – be able to understand, or and be aware of, someone else’s feelings especially during stressful situations, such as travel delays or billing disputes

 

Operational & leadership Skills Required:

  • Attention to Detail, noticing the small things
  • Resilience and Composure, be able to remain calm and optimistic under extreme pressure, during peak or periods or system failures
  • Problem solving and conflict resolution – be able to turn challenges into opportunities by thinking and acting quickly to resolve issues before they impact a member’s experience
  • Adaptability: be flexible to handle unpredictable shifts in processers, resource changes, last minute VIP guest arrivals, or sudden changes in event plans.
  • Relatability – the capacity to connect with diverse stakeholders across all backgrounds
  • Situational Awareness – constantly monitoring the environment to identify members who need support or help
  • Curiosity- the ability to seek out and transform standard transactions into personalised stories and memorable experiences
  • Time Management – the ability to efficiently meet stringent deadlines while maintaining a relaxed and unhurried demeanor for guests.
  • Digital Fluency – must be proficient in new age technology and systems