Senior Software Engineer

Recruiter:

H&S Labour Brokers

Job Ref:

2056435371

Date posted:

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
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JOB DESCRIPTION:

Senior software engineers research, analyze and evaluate requirements for the existing or new software applications, furthermore they design, develop, test and maintain software solutions to meet these requirements. They are expected to mentor and work with software engineers and junior team members to accomplish their tasks.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life-cycle may be encountered).
Provide hands-on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments and processing, which may include site visits to the Karoo.
Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations and early science activities.
Assist in maturing of software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization and improved long term maintainability and robustness.
Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers.
Compile document sets.
Provide project management and progress reporting input as required by the Functional Manager and for team communication.
Participate in development of project schedules and activities.
Participate in the development of budgets and cost/benefit analysis for compliance with project procurement policies.
Make technical decisions independently without direction from Technical lead.
Has deep understanding of version control to the point of being able to help out junior and software engineers.
Innovate independently towards improving the software
Qualification:
B.Tech/B.Sc (Comp Sci) with 10+ years; OR B.Eng/B.Sc Hons (Comp Sci) with 9+ years; OR M.Eng/M.Sc (Comp Sci) with 7+ years; OR PhD/D.Eng with 5+ years; Engineering (with a software focus) or related field
Experience:
Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong software focus.
Python or C/C++ programming language and experience in development, testing, development, commissioning, release and support of large scale projects in Python or C/C++.
Technical knowledge of development in Linux operating systems (experience in system administration of such will be beneficial).
Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with control and monitoring will be beneficial.
Knowledge:
Modern software collaboration tools such as Github, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA. Python programming language.

Should you meet the above requirements, please upload your CV to our website [CVS VIA EMAIL WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED]

All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply and will be considered. Our client applies the principles of employment equity as per National legislation and policy guidelines and will consider designated groups in line with these requirements.

Candidates will be required to go through a background and vetting process. The full job spec will be shared with short-listed candidates

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful

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