Software Developer intern

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

About the Company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company and global leader in networking products and services, acquired local startup Cape Networks in 2018. At HPE User Experience Insights we have a big vision: to improve the way networks work for everyone.
Today, our product is a beloved jewel in the HPE Networking portfolio and our Cape Town based team is recognized as being at the leading edge of design thinking and execution. Now is a unique opportunity to join our growing our team, build new products, and scale our systems.

What do we do?

Our product gives network managers insight into how their users are experiencing Wi-Fi, network, and application performance, and helps them fix problems before users complain. Other performance tools are complex and intimidating, built by network engineers for network engineers; ours is beautiful and simple, and our customers love it.

Our sensor hardware is a delight to install and our software is easy and fun to use. Our product is used in offices, universities, banks, hotels, airports, stadiums, retail stores, and more - every business with Wi-Fi is a potential customer that we can help.
We design all our own hardware and software in Cape Town. Our software systems are built entirely in-house using Python, Rust, React, Postgres, Clickhouse and other technologies. We are truly a full-stack company, with a great set of technical challenges to work on.

About you

• Are you a skilled and motivated software developer? Are you looking for a fast-paced
• environment where you can grow your skills amongst a highly driven and smart team?
• The role
• You will be prototyping and experimenting with software used by other developers and by
• our customers. This will involve integration with our ever-evolving cloud services, and
• developing and improving existing and new solutions.

Skills & Experience:

• Practical experience programming in Python
• Good understanding of basic computer networking
• Basic SQL knowledge
• Familiar with Git source control or similar
• Good teamwork and communication skills

Beneficial skills

• Systems programming experience (C, Rust, etc.)
• Network programming experience (HTTP, sockets)

What we are offering

• Excitement and growth of a startup with the resources and security of a Fortune 100
• company
• Ongoing technical education
• Soft skills training
• Exposure to latest & greatest technologies
• Opportunity to help shape the product
• Growth and global scope

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Bias, Business, Calendar Management, Coaching, Computer Literacy, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Office Administration, Policy and procedures, Recordkeeping, Risk Assessment, Service And Support Planning {+ 6 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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