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Jessica Pretorius

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Engineering Manager at Parkway Health · Real-time systems

Works at
Parkway Health
Location
Johannesburg, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
University of Nairobi
Languages
English, Afrikaans
Hiring
Message Connect

Overview

Engineering Manager at Parkway Health, focused on real-time systems. Shipped 29 launches on the real-time team without a rollback. Before that: Andela and Flutterwave. Most at home with Erlang/OTP and Redis.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about real-time systems
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
Erlang/OTPGoElixirRedis
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

8 backend engineer roles open on the real-time team in Johannesburg

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$180k-$226k + equity
Team
Real-time, 17 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with Redis Production experience with Erlang/OTP Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $177k-$253k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Johannesburg, South Africagorediselixir
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Parkway Health · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 22 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Software Engineer
    Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
    Andela · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Moved 65% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
    Flutterwave · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Shipped 8 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  4. Software Engineer
    Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
    Ecobank · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 39 a week to 3.
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 606ms to 131ms.
  5. Software Engineer
    Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
    Kuda · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 3.
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 25 a week to 2.

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Education

  1. University of Nairobi
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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