Senior Back-End Developer at Tracker Connect (Pty) Ltd

Introduction

• Tracker requires the services of a Senior back-end developer in our Development and Engineering Department. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver solutions to achieve customer satisfaction, while working within a team. Should you be interested in this challenge and meet the job requirements, please forward your application before the closing date.

Job description
Key roles and responsibilities:
 

• Technical leadership in delivery of products and solutions, within and across teams.
• Effective management of all staff in the team.
• Continuously align delivery to the Tracker and team strategy and planning.
• Provide input into the annual salary review process as and when required.
• Deliver strategic projects on time, in budget, with the desired functionality, at the defined quality level in a sustainable way.
• Assist in definition and design architecture/technical implementation related to area of responsibility, while collaborating with other managers, leads and architects.
• Meet best practice criteria in the evaluation and testing of software.
• Assure that team members adhere to and follow these practices.
• Complete work orders in appropriate timescales.
• Maintain and systems without introducing new defects.
• Enhance systems to support and move to new technologies.
• Share knowledge with development and support teams.
• Document systems, including enhancements to facilitate knowledge sharing.
• Mentor and coach Junior Developers.
• Ensure that the best practice development processes and standards are followed.
• Effective use of development toolset.
• Follow department development standards

Minimum requirements

• Degree / Diploma with 4 years to 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in SCRUM AGILE methodology.
• Experience in C# required.
• Experience in .NET Core, WCF, and WebAPI an advantage.
• Experience with Azure DevOps (TFS and GIT) or MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) would be advantageous
• Experience in SQL Server 2016/9, including:
• Relational database design
• Extensive and complex SQL queries
• Experience in SQL Reporting Services advantageous
• Experience with message queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ, ApacheMQ, Kafka would be advantageous.
• Multi-threaded and parallel development experience advantageous.
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) experience beneficial.
• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) designation is advantage.
• Exposure to good coding standard practices and source code configuration management.
• Experience in SOLID, KISS, TDD, DDD and Clean Coding practices
• High attention to detail with a strong focus on quality.
• Good planning, organising and leading skills.
• Good inter-personal skills.
• Encourages collaboration and delivering within the delivery processes
• Able to work effectively within a team