Software Developer (SS) – Cape Town, Century City (Hybrid) – 12 Month Contract at Paracon

The Portfolio:

• Enterprise Risk Support owns a diverse set of products with multiple capabilities. To effectively support these products, our teams require a diverse set of software development skills and strong product knowledge geared for delivery.
• We build market leading platforms and software to support out the box configuration of our brands and markets.
• Be part of building a robust, and bespoke platform that supports loosely coupled off the shelf components that can be easily added, configured, or removed as required.

Purpose of the Role:

• The Intermediate Software Developer will form a vital part of a team of C# Developers who are responsible for creating cutting-edge software that supports critical business processes. They should have strong foundational knowledge of design patterns and principles and understand the processes in applying these.  This candidate will report to the Team Lead in the Verification and Status Management space.

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Develop cutting-edge software using the latest development tools and frameworks.
• Unit-test all software artifacts.
• Maintain current systems (web/other) and develop new systems (web/other) using the latest technologies.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Test Analysts in developing, testing, and deploying systems components.
• Research and develop new technologies.
• Provide second/third line support to IT for software deployed into company eco system.
• Analyse and resolve complex and high impact production issues.
• Monitor systems performance and ensure all SLA’s are met.

Essential Criteria:

• A minimum of 3 – 5 years’ hands-on development experience.
• Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification or related experience.
• Experience in working with agile teams, successfully delivering agile based software projects, running Agile ceremonies.
• Experience in applying design patterns and principles.
• Experience in designing databases according to best practice and standards.
• Strong knowledge of restful APIs.
• Experience working with a relevant IDE (VSCode, VS, Rider)
• Experience building unit tests.
• Experience in developing CICD.
• Tech Stack:
• Source control concepts (Merging, Branching, Publishing)
• Continuous Integration
• C# .NET
• Relational databases / NoSQL Databases

Desirable Criteria:

• Azure Concepts & best practices
• Knowledge in any of the following spaces:
• Risk
• Customer Verification