Senior Software Developer

Location: Pretoria, Gauteng

Type: Permanent

Salary: R336,000 – R420,000 per annum

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for: Delivering and maintaining new and existing software products and the candidate primarily develops software. Responsibilities also include product and procedure documentation, the testing of product and/or source code as well as analysis of the broad market segment in Business Process Management (BPM).

Organisational Structure

The Software Development Engineer reports to the Development Manager - Product Development.

Nature of Work and Job scale

Major Functions:

• Develop new company products
• Maintain existing company products
• Participate in analysis, planning and architecting of company products
• Research technologies required to perform the above mentioned functions
• Communicate with internal customers and/or peers regarding the development process and product
• Create documentation where appropriate

Required Qualifications and Skills

Qualifications

• BSc IT degree preferable
• Completed relevant Microsoft development exams

Soft Skills

• Professional
• Fluent in English
• Team player with good soft skills
• Time management skills
• Adaptability to a changing environment.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Relevant tertiary or other applicable qualifications are required.
• Descent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and committed
• Conflict resolution skills
• Be able to work independently
• Lateral and creative thinking required.
• Analytical and logical
• Enthusiastic and disciplined.
• Innovative
• Proactive and be able to work systematically
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting techniques and detail-oriented problem solving.
• Experience working with a product development team in an agile software development environment

Technical Skills

• 5+ years’ experience with software design and development on the Microsoft platform
• Working knowledge of Microsoft MVC
• Familiar with Microsoft Team foundation server
• Proven background in enterprise application design and implementation
• Business Process Management (BPM) / Workflow exposure.
• Experience developing applications for cloud computing advantageous
• Experience developing real-time transaction processing applications
• Experience with the following technologies:

o    Microsoft C#

o    Microsoft WCF (Windows® Communication Foundation)

o    Microsoft WPF (Windows® Presentation Foundation)

o    Microsoft .NET 3.5+

o    Microsoft Azure

o    Microsoft SQL

o    JavaScript

o    AJAX

o    HTML 5

o    jQuery

• Exposure to the Infragistics suite controls
• Working knowledge of software development design patterns
• Working knowledge of a SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)
• Familiar with software development best practices
• Exposure to database systems (T-SQL, Business Intelligence, Database Administration, Reporting Services)