Graduate developer at Derivco

Employment Type: Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

We are trailblazers. We are innovative. We have technology running in our veins. Do we tick your boxes? Do you want to play a part in taking gaming technology to the next level? If yes, we’re looking for you!

This is your opportunity to be part of the leading software house in the online gaming world. In our space, passionate, innovative and incredibly awesome teams create the best technology in the field, and each day is a chance to level up.

Derivco Cape Town is looking for the brightest Graduate Developer to join our 2021 Graduate Program. This is a great challenge for someone who is passionate about software development.

This could be the ultimate opportunity for you to kick-start your career. You will be working alongside a Game Technology Portal team to produce quality software and documentation, while building experience in the latest technologies. The team is building a system that aims to improve the efficiencies across the game development lifecycle for many game studios.

Do you have what it takes...

Key Responsibilities

• Knowledge Sharing

Readily shares knowledge when tasked or approached.

• Develop and Maintain Software

Contributes to ensuring an appropriate software design, in conjunction with Technical Lead and Senior Developer, according to best practice. Develops and releases software as per the team standards and processes to meet the defined specifications. Ensures that the development or maintenance performed does not comprise the quality or functionality and seeks guidance from Seniors where necessary. Communicates status and escalates on risks and issues appropriately and timeously. Comprehensively creates and maintains documentation of the software implementation, according to documentation standards

• Software Quality

Test your software as per the team’s software quality charter. Make sure your software does what supposed to do as per the defined specification. Test all changes you made and ensure that existing functionality works as expected. Takes full ownership of quality by working with the QA team and Team Seniors to ensure the test plans are of a high quality and cover the full scope of development. Actively review and fix all defects found as per the defined quality standards and seeks guidance from seniors where necessary.

• Support and Maintenance

Provides support for product related issues in production with appropriate amount of urgency, while quickly identifying the problem scope. Provides effective and timely feedback on support issues. Provides support to dependent teams.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum Qualifications: B.Sc. Computer science degree or relevant IT/ game development qualification

• Advantageous: Experience in Web technologies

• Understand the SDLC

• Appropriate problem-solving skills

• Work under pressure

• Good written and verbal communications skills

• Ability to troubleshoot with assistance

Candidates are encouraged to provide a portfolio of previous work experience (e.g. GIT Hub) upon application 

Behavioural Competencies

• Adaptably Resilient

• Collaborative Relationships

• Communicates and Influences Effectively

• Develops Talent

• Drives Results

• Resourceful and Improving

• Strategic Mindset

• Decision-making Quality