Senior Specialist: User Interface Development Ref No. RTMC/RTIT/SSUID/2026 at The Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC)

Job Purpose: 

• The Senior Specialist: User Interface Development is responsible for designing, developing, testing and integrating moderate to complex application solutions focusing on business and custom applications user interface.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To develop software and applications.
• Participate in Scrum Meetings and Daily Stand-ups to gain an understanding of existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine new requirements.
• Receive new issues assigned by Manager: Software Development or Software.
• Architect through a defect, new specification or specification change.
• Work with Road Traffic Management Systems team members to create seamless and elegant front-end experience for a diverse user base.
• Analyse assignments and plan implementation and unit tests to verify code.
• Check out existing code and implement new code or change to existing code and submit for review to the Manager or another Specialist by checking code back.
• Implement suggested changes as reviewed and release code for build process.
• Support existing functionality and develop new functionality and components.
• Develop and maintain moderately complex graphical user interfaces.
• Ensure standardisation of the user interface approach.
• Apply accessibility user interface standards to ensure compliance and responsive design.
• Implement recommendations from the Architect regarding application performance, and high availability features.
• Create unit and integrated system tests to show that the developed functionality works as intended.
• Do root cause analysis on bugs to find and fix the cause of a problem in an integrated system.
• Build and deploy the system on an application server.
• Execute unit tests.
• Assess the work done and assist other developers to ensure that the system under development is implemented correctly.
• Participate in peer code reviews
• Utilise version control, build, continuous integration solutions and code quality tools as required
• Conduct research on emerging technologies and industry practices and makes recommendation to the Manager: Systems Development.
• To collaborate with / contribute to the team
• Provide input to management into the functional plan of the department
• Provide input into departmental reports to support decision-making
• Support management with tracking of expenditure in line with budget
• To build value adding relationships with stakeholders
• To deliver, monitor and continuously improve customer service.
• To continuously develop own personal expertise and drive personal growth

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Matric (NQF Level 4) as essential
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (NQF Level 7) as essential
• Honours Degree (NQF Level 8) and or post graduate Diploma (NQF Level 8) as added advantage
• 6 – 8 years’ experience in User Interface Development.
• Must have 2-3 years development experience with AngularJS
• Must have 2-3 years development experience with Flutter
• Knowledge of build frameworks (e.g. Maven, Ant, Grunt, Gulp).
• Knowledge of CI tools and participating in Continuous Integration (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo).
• Knowledge of OOAD.
• Understanding of Design Patterns and Domain Driven Design.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks and TDD.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
• Understanding of front-end design.
• Understanding of UX principles.
• Knowledge of front-end development tools.

KEY ATTRIBUTES AND COMPETENCIES:

• Accountability and ethical conduct.
• Quality and deadline oriented.
• Analytical Ability and result driven.