Software Development Engineer 2 (Live) (JHB) at BET Software

We Want You:

• We are looking for an Intermediate Software Developer (Live) who can design and build software that is stable, scalable, and performant. The successful Team Member will be responsible for primarily revolve around building software by writing code, as well as modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interfaces. You will also be involved in directing system testing and validation procedures and working with customers or departments on technical issues including software system design and maintenance.

You Bring:

• Formal Tertiary qualifications or related field.
• At least 3-4 years of experience within a development environment.
• 2-3 years C# experience.
• 2-3 years .net core experience.
• 2-3 years of RESTful API experience.
• Understanding of key design principles of software engineering.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Understanding of server-side CSS.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Understanding of SEO principles.

Advantage:

• SQL, ReactJs.
• Experience in document stores such as Couchbase / Mongo.
• Experience in Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ / Kafka / Red Panda.
• Experience with graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator.

What You’ll Do:

• Modifying software to fix errors, adapt it to new hardware, improve its performance, or upgrade interfaces.
• Directing system testing and validation procedures.
• Directing software programming and documentation development.

Respond to Outages & Failures:

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support, and Operational teams so the number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events and create or assist with the creation of SOP’s.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’ solutions.
• Perform troubleshooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce. intervention required over time.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Maintain solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase.
• Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
• Assess risk and impact of production issues/changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.