Senior Software Developer L1

Position Overview

• Senior Software Developer L1 (on‑site) – Cape Town
• Experienced developer seeking a new opportunity

Architecture and Technical Design

• Analysing requirements and designing software components, under supervision, that meet business requirements and standards.

Software Engineering and Practices

• Development, release and maintenance of multiple, integrated software components that meet the agreed design.
• Development and optimising of automated functional and basic non‑functional tests, tools and artefacts.
• Creation and maintenance of documentation.

The ideal candidate should:

• Write testable code across multiple components.
• Ensure that the code written adheres to the required design.
• Review teammates' code to ensure that these follow the design.
• Write/update documentation for the technical or operational specs, where required.
• Be actively involved in reviews of functional and basic non‑functional test scenarios.
• Ensure that there is a threat model for the product and that the changes created don't compromise the component.

Development Processes

• Building the foundational building blocks of the software product's continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline.

The ideal candidate should:

• Be able to craft an advanced YML‑based pipeline to build, test and deploy the product you are working on.
• Be confident that the pipeline is solid and is trusted to deliver the right product to the right environments, through the use of quality gates, reports and alerts.
• Use Docker containers during the development & testing of your product and in the pipeline.

Planning and Delivery

• Resolution of issues related to the functionality of software products.
• Communication of work status and escalation of risks that may compromise on‑time and quality delivery.

The ideal candidate should:

• Fully understand the overhead required to review code and write the tests required.
• Work closely with partner SDETs to deliver quality.
• Resolve issues, including troubleshooting to find the root cause and fix it.