Senior Software Developer - Pretoria - Agile Bridge

Description

Job Purpose:

A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced professional responsible for overseeing software development projects, writing clean and efficient code, and providing technical leadership to a team of engineers.

Key Accountabilities:

• Serve as a technical lead contributing to and directing the efforts of development teams, including internal and external team members.
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of software solutions, ensuring adherence to technical specifications, requirements, and architectural principles.
• Architect scalable, reliable, and maintainable software systems, considering performance, security, and usability aspects.
• Provide deep technical expertise that drives colleague engagement, clarity, and instills a culture of innovation and execution.
• Mentor and coach junior members of the development team to allow for skill and knowledge development through advice, coaching, and training opportunities.

Software Development:

• Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of software development to the completion of complex assignments.
• Design, develop, modify, implement, and support software components anywhere in the software stack.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in various programming languages, frameworks, and technologies.
• Develop high-quality software, including requirements, design, code, documentation, and testing.
• Implement software testing strategies, including unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing, to ensure quality and reliability of software products.
• Optimize software performance, troubleshoot issues, and address technical debt through refactoring, performance tuning, and code optimization techniques.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.

Quality Assurance and Documentation:

• Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality and maintainability.
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards.
• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing, and changes where applicable.

Project Management:

• Successfully develop, deliver, and maintain high-quality software solutions that meet customer expectations.
• Evaluate third-party libraries, frameworks, and tools for integration into software projects, considering factors such as compatibility, performance, and licensing.
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of coding standards, development processes, and software engineering best practices within the organization.
• Participate in Agile or Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, to track progress and ensure alignment with project goals.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with product managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, and translate business requirements into technical designs.
• Work with product managers early on to shape product definition so that it can be built in a flexible, extensible, and robust way.
• Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments.
• Work in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management to ensure alignment with project goals.
• Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and leadership to provide project updates, address concerns, and escalate issues as needed.

Mentorship:

• Identify training needs in your team and suggest training interventions, whether it be an Udemy course, Pluralsight, or mentors within the team.
• Offer mentorship and guidance to less experienced developers in your Team.
• Commitment to team success and positive team dynamics.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Delivers software projects within the agreed-upon deadlines, maintaining alignment with the defined scope and quality expectations.
• Proactively introduces process improvements and adopts new technologies that enhance team efficiency or product performance.
• Consistently delivers high-quality software that meets or exceeds customer expectations, with minimal post-release issues.
• Maintains the performance and reliability of systems and applications, with a focus on minimizing downtime and performance-related incidents.
• Actively mentors and coaches junior team members, contributing to their professional growth and the overall development of the team.
• Focus on sound development concepts and patterns such as object/service oriented architecture, refactoring, and separation of concerns.
• Comply with project plans and industry standards.
• Code Coverage provided on the code developed.

Skills, Know-how and Experience:

• Recognized as a technology expert in their field.
• Exceptional complex problem-solving skills, with a flair for innovative and creative thinking.
• Strong focus on customer needs and satisfaction.
• Has the ability to work independently.
• Skilled in interpreting and gathering user requirements, and translating them into technical specifications or code.
• Extensive knowledge of modern IT operations, including Cloud, Social, Mobility, IoT, Big Data, and more.
• Deep understanding of architectural best practices and patterns such as Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design, Clean Architecture.
• Proven experience in applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
• Proficient in multiple relevant programming languages, frameworks, and databases.

Adaptable and open to embracing significant changes in technology or work environments.

Essential:

• Bachelor's Degree/BSc Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience.
• 7 + years of professional or other practical experience.

Experience in the following technologies:

• Databases: SQL, MySQL, MongoDB.
• Azure: Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines.
• Frameworks: .NET, .NET Core, Entity Framework.
• Backend Tech: C#.
• Frontend Tech: Angular, React.

Beneficial:

• Experience in the Agile methodology of developing software.
• Working with Agile Teams and successfully delivering Agile-based software projects.
• Experience working with DevOps, Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Automated Build Servers.

Values and Competencies:

• Get stuff done: completing tasks, and contributing to the deliverables of the team to ensure we deliver high quality products.
• Be the best you can be: investing time in learning and sharpening your skills. Teaching and sharing your unique skills with the rest of the team.
• Do the right thing: we build a culture of mutual respect and collaboration, admit to mistakes and learn from them.
• Servicing the customer: at the forefront of providing service excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Solve together: we conduct ourselves in such a way that we work harder, cooperate and be supportive of one another and contribute to the team spirit.
• Build a bridge: progress with what you have and solve a challenge.
• Add value: to tasks, interactions with colleagues and customer interactions.
• Have fun we enjoy the work we do and the people that we are doing it.

Direct Reports and/or Stakeholders:

Influence, collaborate and co-ordinate with:

• Product Owner.
• Developers.
• Managers.