Junior Software Engineer

Benefits

Our client believes that a work environment that allows flexibility results in better employee performance. They have therefore developed several policies and structures to encourage this, which include:

• The ability to work remotely within your region (Cape Town) as they are a software company, they are in a unique position to allow their team to work from home.
• Unlimited leave policy after working for our client for one year, employees are given the option to opt into their unlimited leave policy.
• They encourage their staff to be flexible within their roles and get involved in as many aspects of the company has to offer as they can.
• However, with these benefits, our client requires their staff to be self-motivated and driven to meet expectations and deadlines.

Other company benefits include a medical aid scheme with Discovery and a provident fund with Momentum.

About the Software Team

The primary focus is to learn the codebase, gather user data, and respond to requests from senior developers/CTO.

• Minimum of a BSC Honours Degree in the appropriate field of study.
• 0-2 years of experience as a software engineer.
• Preference will be given if you finished within the top 10% of your class.
• Experience as a Full Stack developer (Tech Stack below).
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices, including Agile software development.
• Knowledge of RESTful API web services.
• Knowledge of Clean Code principles.
• Experience with CI/CD and software version control systems.

• C# for back-end (ASP.net core with Entity Framework)
• JavaScript ES6
• React 17
• SQL-Server for database transactions
• Git version control (using SourceTree)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk for deployment
• Trello for workflow management

Note, our client does not require experience in any of these specific technologies. Any modern coding language using OOP principles would be acceptable.

• Fluent with a modern object-oriented language (C++, C#, Java, Python, Kotlin, etc.).
• Experience building complex web systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates, and meet production deadlines.
• Experience with mission-critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations.
• Knowledge of the MVC pattern
• Drive to solve problems using code.
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies quickly.

• Develop information systems by designing, developing, and implementing software solutions.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.
• Investigating problem areas.
• Following the software development lifecycle.
• Documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Improving operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Protecting operations by keeping information confidential.
• Providing information by collecting, analysing, and summarising development and service issues.
• Accomplishing the engineering and organisation mission by completing related results as needed.
• Voice your opinions and bring new ideas to our clients' tech space. Passion is infectious.

Should you not receive a response from us within one week of your application, your application has unfortunately not been successful.