Principal Software Developer at Mintek

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:
Leadership

• Lead/guide AO & SP-level Software Developers.
• Lead large development projects/teams, including resource and execution planning.
• Makes technical decisions having an impact on the product development direction and outcomes within the Division.
• Work with complex assignments that require high levels of integration and specialised knowledge and skills.
• Specialise within an area of technologies used in the division’s software products.

Strategy

• Participate in divisional strategic objectives, make recommendations.
• Assess the environment to determine opportunities for product improvement.

Innovation

• Operational: improve workflows, introduce new procedures, drive initiatives to improve product reliability and maintainability, as well as to increase efficiency.
• Technical: introduce new tools/3rd party components to improve product efficiency, reliability and usability, or to expand product capabilities.
• Technical: design new products/enhancements of a complex nature. Co-design major new products.

Execution, People and Planning

• Develop the functional specifications, design and implement high-complexity features/improvements to existing products, requiring professional judgement and independent evaluation, selection or modification of standard techniques or methods, affecting multiple systems.
• Develop functional specifications, design and implement medium complexity systems/products.
• Solve unforeseen and novel problems, requiring ingenuity and the application of software development knowledge to resolve the problem.
• Software testing, troubleshooting and code inspection.
• Advanced technical support for multiple products or systems.
• Training and mentoring of AO & SP-level Software Developers.
• Provide advanced training on the use of the division’s software products to other members of the division and external clients.
• Management of large multiyear projects, including resource and execution planning.

Governance and Risk Management

• Ensure proper care in the use and maintenance of equipment and supplies, promote continual improvement in the workplace, adhere to and enforce all SHEQ requirements.
• As a decision maker be responsible for the assessment and management of all risks related to the projects under their direct control.
• Responsible for technical oversight of the work of junior staff.
• Responsible for significant equipment / facilities.

Relationship Management and Reporting

• Present at local and international trade shows.
• Work independently and provides instruction to junior staff. Receive limited guidance and instruction on unusualand complex problems.
• Will lead, mentor and train staff.

Minimum requirements

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum NQF level 9 Masters’s degree relevant to software development.
• Ideal PhD degree (or NQF level 10).
• Minimum 8 years’ vocational experience in software development.

Apply by: 27 February 2026