Intermediate Software Development Engineer (CPT) at BETSoftware

You Bring:

• At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment is advantageous.
• 2 - 5 years database experience
• 3 -5 years server/client- side languages is advantageous.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

What You’ll Do:

Technical Outputs:

Perform Planning

• Identify and establish objectives for self and team.
• Work on objectives or goals within timeline.
• Consider all reasonable factors, impediments and obstacles.
• Identify potential alternative strategies and refactor approach for maximum benefit within the shortest possible time.

Implementation- Ensure the solution is functionally complete

• Deliver a solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives.
• Deliver a correct solution which provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision.
• Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met.

Implementation- Build Reliable Solutions

• Design solutions that perform consistently under pressure and require minimal intervention.
• Minimise faults through clear requirements, solid design, and accurate implementation.
• Ensure robustness, high availability, and quick recovery from outages or attacks.
• Improve fault tolerance and maintainability, reducing downtime over time.
• Build for long-term durability as user needs evolve. Simplify support with clear traceability and helpful error messages.
• Continuously improve reliability so the system needs fewer fixes to stay up.

Implementation- Build Secure Solutions

• Ensure the solution protects data and maintains confidentiality, with appropriate access control.
• Safeguard integrity by preventing unauthorised access or changes.
• Design for resilience against attacks, errors, and faults.
• Use logs to create a clear, verifiable audit trail, with traceable and authenticated user actions wherever possible.

Implementation- Ensure Maintainability

• Design the solution for easy updates and long-term support, using clear standards and modular architecture.
• Aim for minimal developer intervention by enabling support team maintenance where possible.
• Provide thorough documentation, encourage reusability, and build in self-diagnostic capabilities to catch issues early.
• Prioritise clean, adaptable code to reduce future defects.

Verify Deployed Solutions

• Ensure the solution is delivered completely and with the additional assets which are required to make installation/deployment as seamless and easy as possible.
• Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving, software or other operational usage environments.

Respond to outages & Failures

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams so number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’
• Perform trouble shooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce intervention required over time.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Maintain solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

Direct 3rd party development partners

• When required supply appropriate information, domain knowledge and access to partners.
• Provide timely, relevant and constructive feedback to assist the partner to achieve success.
• Take corrective action when deviation from the plan is observed.
• Take all appropriate steps to ensure organisational success.