Intermediate / Senior Software Developers

A leading provider of payment solutions, transaction processing services and financial technology, is looking for Intermediate and Senior Software developers to join their Johannesburg team.

The successful candidates will be responsible for:

? Translating use cases and technical specification into functional applications.
? Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
? Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
? Identify inefficiencies and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
? Help to maintain code quality, coding standards and integrity.
? Accept coaching and mentoring from managers, senior developers/architects.
? Deliver necessary documentation where required
? Unit testing of own development
? Communication with project management team and updating timekeeping and project tracking/management systems as per company requirements.
? Peer review of fellow team member’s code.
? May have to work on-site at our customers’ premises
Qualifications

? A tertiary qualification (Degree / Diploma / Certificate) with majors in at least one of the following: Computer Science, Information Systems or similar


Specific Technical Skills:

? A Minimum of 5 to 7 years software development experience depending on the seniority of the position.
? Working with Microsoft SQL server, 2008 and later.
? Experience with relational databases
? Proficient in C#, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
? Familiarity with the .NET frameworks, 3.5 and higher. (The more recent the better).
? Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
? Skill for writing reusable C# libraries
? Be Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
? Experience with popular web application frameworks and libraries will be beneficial.
? Familiarity with Windows Presentation Framework, MVC, WCF and entity framework.
? Working experience with Visual Studio 2010 and later.
? Knack for writing clean, readable C# code
? Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
? Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
? Basic understanding of Common Language Runtime (CLR), its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
? Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as TFS and Git.
? Familiarity with software integration methods and frameworks.
? Xamarin or similar mobile application development beneficial

The successful candidate must:

? Have a focused career history in pure software development
? Must be self-motivated, energetic and willing to put in extra effort when required
? Must be willing to put in a lot of initial effort into understanding a complex existing system, do enhancements on that system, as well as implement new functionality, with ongoing technical support (Bug resolving, etc)
? Must be able to work close together within a team
? Be attentive to detail
? Have own transport