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When it comes to creating exceptional software for the online gaming industry, Derivco is as the forefront of industry innovation. Our highly skilled teams of designers, developers, illustrators and animators love nothing more than working with the latest technology and have the most fun trying out new things. The software we produce for Microgaming has made...
Key Responsibilities
Develop and Maintain Software
Acquire and maintain in-depth knowledge of the product. Provide technical mentorship on the project complexity, scope and risk for the product. Analyse requirements and create an appropriate software design. Guide team members with their requirement analysis and design. Collaborate with senior colleagues in creating and maintaining the team's SDLC. Communicate status and escalate on risks and issues timeously. Comprehensively create and maintain documentation of the software, system design and implementation. Create appropriate task estimates and review them with the team. Maintain, adhere to and oversee application of development and documentation standards, and team processes. Develop and release software to meet the defined specifications within the agreed time. Maintenance performed should not compromise the quality or functionality of the software.
Growth of People
Agree to a technical coaching strategy with team leadership and play an active role in coaching. Take advantage of opportunities to provide technical help with the aim to upskill other team members.
Knowledge Sharing
Proactively share knowledge about the operational environment. Readily share knowledge within the team and with key stakeholders.
Safeguarding Architecture
Ensure the team's products use appropriate technologies while staying abreast of new technologies. Good understanding of the product lifecycle, including production environments and operational overheads. Seek to understand the business drivers for the team's products and ensures that the architectural vision and design solution align with these business drivers. Works with other senior developers and architects to create and maintain the architectural vision for the team's products.
Software Quality
Actively drive the improvement of the team's quality standards and processes. Review and fix all defects found as per the defined quality standards. Facilitate team code reviews with the aim to improve the quality of the team's software and upskilling of other team members. Help others improve the quality of their work. Ensure software functions as per the defined specification. Take full ownership of quality by working with the QA team to ensure the test plans are of a high quality and cover the full scope of development. Test all changes made and ensure that existing functionality works as expected. Test software as per the team's software quality charter.
Support and Maintenance
Provide effective and timely feedback on support issues. Provide support for product related issues in production with appropriate urgency, as well as support to dependent teams.
Required Skills and Experience
Minimum 3-year relevant qualification and at least 5 years software development experience OR Relevant 1-year certification and at least 7 years software development experience OR Minimum 8 years software development experience
Coding experience in:
JavaScript ES5/ES6
HTML
CSS
C#
.Net
Game and/or mobile development experience
Productivity tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, TFS)
Emulators/OS/Browser experience
Solid experience in the SDLC process
Active coaching experience
Effective teamwork experience
Strong technical abilities
Understand/participate in Agile practices
Excellent communication skills
Innovative thinker
Ability to work in a high-pressure environment
Behavioural Competencies
Adaptably Resilient
Collaborative Relationships
Communicates and Influences Effectively
Develops Talent
Drives Results
Resourceful and Improving
Strategic Mindset
Decision-making Quality
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