Intermediate Software Developer
Location: Western Cape, Southern Suburbs

Description of role:
Our client is a fintech company that values diversity, creativity and equal opportunity and are always on the lookout for bright, talented individuals to join their team. They are proud to provide great working conditions, competitive salaries, and comprehensive benefits that help keep their people healthy and happy. If you're a self-starter, entrepreneurial, positive, enjoy challenges and want to be part of a growing team committed to both personal growth and career success - then they want to hear from you!
The Intermediate Software Developer will be part of a team, responsible for supporting the high availability of systems utilized by their customers and their business. The production support team supports their day to day business operations by working closely with Customer Support, Product, Development, finance, back-office and collections teams on a daily basis, resolving incidents and continuously improving our Microsoft .Net and AWS micro-services to minimize incidents and downtime. This position is ideal for an articulate, detailed, and service orientated individual who is a strong developer and enjoys working in a dynamic environment while investigating sources of issues and coming up with different ways of solving or approaching a problem.
The position is based in Cape Town and requires a candidate to be available remotely for incidents/escalations occurring outside of normal business hours.
Here's what you can expect to be doing in the role:
• Contributing the day to day disciplines of scrum and building a happy and effective team
• Hands-on troubleshooting and problem solving to identify, understand and fix system failures – this involves going through code and working with various departments to resolve production issues.
• Assume the role of owning the resolution of all incidents, including triaging issues and post incident monitoring and reporting
• Assume the role of owning the development of any subsequent system improvements identified during an incident to make our systems better
• Development of any subsequent system improvements identified during an incident to make our systems better
• Contribute to improving system monitoring to ensure proactive management of our production environment is transparent and overt.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of support knowledge base repositories to ensure all processes and procedures are documented in a clear and concise manner and that periodic reviews of documentation are conducted.
• Continuously recognize opportunities for improvement and use initiative to introduce them
Requirements - a little about who you are:
• National Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
• 1+ years of production support experience advantageous
• 1+ years in financial services, fintech experience advantageous
• 3+ years experience in C#, ASP.Net, MS SQL/TSQL, SSIS packages, AWS and Micro Services,
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and enjoys problem solving
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Available to work flexible shifts; including weekends and statutory holidays on a rotational basis
Benefits:
• Flexible benefits to structure your own package
• Creative agile work environment
• Flexible working hours
• Café and lounge area
• Staff restaurant with a variety of healthy meal options