Senior Developer Mr Price Group - Durban at Mr Price Group

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Design:

• Provide technical knowledge to inform the project manager on expected project outcomes in the design phase, this includes providing timeframes, capabilities to achieve desired outcomes, project/change specifications, application specifications etc.
• Ability to provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of unique complex technological issues.
• Keep a breast of the latest changes in IT to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regards to optimisation & improvements to existing systems, and new development tools including changes in coding languages, new software and operating system releases, trends in development etc.

Project Execution & Development

• Develop, enhance, maintain and deploy technical solutions that conform to specified architectural design to execute the project plan/change specification for the required application or solution ensuring adherence to project timelines and application works in the live environment
• Design and write test cases for unit testing by the testing team to ensure that technical aspects of the application are fully stress tested and any bugs are fixed accordingly
• Create documentation and user guides for technical aspects of applications or changes to inform stakeholders (testers, project managers, rollout team, end users etc.) of desired outcomes and use instructions for the application

Workflow Management & Junior Development mentorship

• Review code from developers and junior developers and provide guidance &mentorship to grow their capability and ensure their coding is in line with coding standards through testing
• Assign and manage developer workflow to ensure projects are completed on time, team are properly utilised and workflow is assigned evenly

Innovation

• Research appropriate solutions and provide technical expertise and recommendations.
• Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes.
• Present / host tech sessions to showcase new innovations / tech

QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant IT Qualification
• Minimum 5 years development experience, most of which has been working with the following tech or similar:
• ReactJS (Non-negotiable- we need you to be able to use your mad react skills on our sites)
• Next.js 
• JavaScript (ES6) 
• GraphQL 
• HTML | CSS 
• REST API 
• Azure Services 
• CI/CD 
• PWA 
• SQL