Senior Developer at Kerridge Commercial Systems South Africa

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Deal with multiple concurrent projects, prioritising and resolving conflicting demands as required.
• Define development objectives and initiate action toward meeting them.
• Ensure that all work is implemented to specification, on schedule, with good quality and within the effort estimated.
• Monitor on-going progress and report on exceptions to project and team management
• Ensure KCS programming standards, best practice and industry guidelines are adhered to
• This role will involve development of applications, and delivering fixes for customers
• Carry out programming tasks from specifications against specific project timescales
• Conduct unit testing on own code
• Submit code for peer review and make modifications in line with feedback received
• Participate in peer review of code and specification, making suggestions to increase quality
• Schedule own time to deliver against assigned priorities in line with agreed project timescales
• Provide clear updates on progress against assigned tasks
• Escalate problems and exceptions that need to be addressed in a timely manner, with suggested solutions and workarounds
• Mentor other members of the development team

Skills, Knowledge and Experience (Qualification, technical skills, commercial work experience, soft skills such as communication, presentation, personal attributes)

• Extensive programming experience
• Requires a high level of understanding SQL database design
• High level of VB.Net and C# programming skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Project Management skills and experience of having delivered software projects to specification, on time and of good quality
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for software development
• Knowledge of software project lifecycles
• Knowledge of development tools and modern database technologies
• Good general management skills in a fast-paced technical operation
• Empathy with software QA and QC processes
• A good understanding of .NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, ReactJS, JavaScript, Typescript, Web API
• Knowledge of SignalR and MaterialUI desirable.

Equal Opportunities

KCS Group is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

Development Team

• Must work from the office within a multi-layered team.
• Have full access to development server and work with other team members on code merge
• Assist QA staff members on testing and documentation
• Assist with software releases
• Assist support members with customer queries