Senior Software Developer

Recruiter:

Accountancy Placements Pietermaritzburg

Job Ref:

PMB000805/LF

Date posted:

Monday, January 3, 2022

Location:

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
Senior Software Developer- Pietermaritzburg

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Senior Developer will join a dynamic development team working on a range of exciting projects using cutting-edge technologies. The intention is to expand the business over the next 2-3 years.â¯

Activities will include building out the next generation of highly-scalable, reusable and performant distributed services and applications for the company’s extensive and diverse range of customers and clients. The successful candidate will need to hit the ground running, with a proven track record in software development of enterprise class solutions that consistently exceed customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing, building, testing and maintaining efficient, reusable and reliable unit-tested code.
Implementing solutions using a range of languages and technologies.
Assisting with understanding customer requirements, technical design and estimation.
Ensuring our architecture is fit to meet the needs of the business: fast, scalable, reliable and expandable.
Taking personal responsibility for ensuring all code that goes to production is of top quality and meets customer requirements and needs.
Ensuring new and existing applications are scaled to meet expected demand.
Continuously improving the software infrastructure, such as the deployment process.
Undertaking code reviews, providing constructive feedback and advising on best practice and coding standards.
The post holder is responsible for maintaining a safe working environment and ensure as reasonably practicable that safe working practices are adopted by employees within this work environment.

Essential Requirements, Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:
Education and training

Educated to degree level, or equivalent, preferably in subjects related to Information Technology.

Specific job skills and experience required

Several years of experience delivering solutions using Agile methods (Scrum, XP, etc), utilising Test-Driven Development, code refactoring, with a strong awareness of the principles of creating ‘clean code’.
Extensive experience of developing and delivering software for commercial and public sector organisations, with a logical approach to problem solving.
Experience of using automated unit testing tools.
Experience of middleware technologies, message queues, message brokers and stream processing technologies (e.g. Apache Kafka).
Highly proficient at designing and developing RESTful APIs.
Working knowledge of cloud-computing platforms and services (ideally Azure).
In-depth knowledge of relational and NoSQL database design and strong SQL skills, as well as an awareness of Object Relational Mapping technologies.
Extensive experience of using source control tools such as Git, and software build tools such as Maven / Gradle.
Comprehensive knowledge of at least three of the following technologies:

C# / .NET Framework, ASP.NET Core
Microsoft Power Platform – Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate
Typescript, Angular, React, Node.js, JavaScript ES6
Ionic Framework, React Native, Flutter, Android / iOS Mobile Development
HTML5, CSS
Cloud computing, serverless functions, preferably Azure.
MS SQL Server, Cosmos DB, other relational / NoSQL databases.
Python, Java
Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint

Personal attributes and competencies

Passionate about software development, and producing high quality, innovative code and solutions.
A quick learning capability, easily picking up new technical concepts.
Ability to spot trends in the market and implement most efficient technologies.
A can-do, self-motivated attitude, with a strong attention to detail.
The ability to work on multiple concurrent projects and priorities.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, plus a relentless ability to come up with different ideas and initiatives that will help the business to achieve its objectives.

Desirable Requirements Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

A great sense of humour.
Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes and containerised deployment.
Experience of Azure DevOps.

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