Senior Developer Level 1 at Games Global

Job Description
Overview

• We are looking for a Senior Developer to provide technical leadership to analyse, design and produce quality software and documentation by adhering to and improving the teams standards and best practices. Supports team alignment with organizational initiatives and objectives whilst safeguarding the architecture and growing product awareness.

Responsibilities

Developed and maintained software:

• Analyses requirements and creates an appropriate software design, in conjunction with other Developers, according to best practice and organizational initiatives and objectives across product, where required.
• Assist and guide team members with their requirement analysis and design across product, where required.
• Creates appropriate task estimates and reviews them with the team. Supports the team in task estimation reviews.
• Develops and releases software as per the team standards and processes to meet the defined specifications or requirements within the agreed time.
• Ensures that the development or maintenance performed does not compromise the quality or functionality of the software.
• Communicates status and escalates on risks and issues appropriately and timeously.
• Comprehensively creates and maintains documentation of the software and system design and implementation, according to documentation standards.
• Develop, maintain, adhere to and oversee application of development and documentation standards, and team processes.
• Collaborating with senior colleagues in creating and maintaining the team’s SDLC.
• Provides technical leadership in understanding the project complexity, scope, and risk for your product.
• Acquire and maintain in-depth knowledge of your product and understand it’s internal and external dependencies.

Software Quality:

• Takes full ownership of quality by working with the QA team 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.
• Actively drives the improvement of the team's quality standards and processes in keeping abreast of industry and emerging technologies.
• Help others improve the quality of their work.
• Facilitates team code reviews with the view to improve the quality of the team's software and upskilling of other team members.

Knowledge sharing:

• Readily shares knowledge when tasked or approached.
• Proactively shares knowledge within the team and with key stakeholders.
• Proactively shares knowledge about the operational environment.

Safeguarding Architecture:

• Works with other senior developers and architects to create and maintain the architectural vision for the team's products.
• Seeks to understand the business drivers for the team's products and ensures that the architectural vision and design solution align with these business drivers.
• Good understanding of the product lifecycle, including on production environments and operational overheads.
• Ensures the team's products use appropriate technologies and stay abreast of new technologies which could be leveraged to improve the product offering.

Support and Maintenance:

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

Growth of people:

• Agrees coaching strategy with team leadership and plays an active role in the coaching, be this technical coaching or mentorship.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or a related field.
• Proven track record of building Software Products.
• 5 Years Software Development experience.
• Software Development.
• Effective Communication.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Continuous Learning.
• Understanding of code design patterns.
• Data Analysis (Optional).
• Cloud: AWS / Azure (Optional).
• Knowledge of AI and or ML (Optional).