Senior .NET Developer | Retail IT Development at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

You will liaise with Senior IT Members and make sure that the technical vision of the company is translated and preserved.

As an experienced developer you will ensure the design of clear and simple solutions and that elegant robust code is written as well as provide guidance in troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

You will be responsible for several home-grown systems that are predominantly written in C# and T-SQL.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with senior IT members in Cape Town and build software and processes accordingly
• Design clean and simple solutions
• Ensure that elegant robust code is written
• Improve and optimize the performance of existing systems
• Provide guidance in troubleshooting root-cause errors
• Ensure that unit, integration and acceptance tests for all components are written
• Ensure that build automation scripts are written
• Assist with analysis where required

Requirements

• At least 5 years’ worth of professional development experience
• Strong software design skills
• Strong understanding of software development process.
• Proficiency in programming languages (T-SQL, C#)
• Experience in system integration, distributed computing and building enterprise-wide systems
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
• Needs to be a critical thinker with good troubleshooting capabilities, including knowing when to log for future investigations.
• Needs to have good clear communication skills

Bonus Experience

• Development using Scala
• Development for reports in FO / Crystal / SSRS
• Development of monitoring and alerting in Grafana / Redgate / Dynatrace

Education

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Science or related discipline