Software Developer II (GAUTENG) at Smollan

DESCRIPTION

Project tasks and assignments

• Engage with various client departments and project managers to manage specific processes within the software development life-cycle (for example, functional specification, construction, quality assurance, implementation and reporting)
• Understand functional and technical documentation needs of customers and research technology solutions to meet those needs
• Ensure development of code meets quality (zero defects) and coding conventions (Smollan and generally acceptable standards). Follow change, incident, release and internal processes
• Maintain open communication with customer representatives and cross-functional teams and ensure content meets requirements
• Provide expertise for technical product documentation projects and support and assist in documentation design
• Liaise with the client to coordinate the roll-out
• Maintain relevant coding standards documentation, user training manuals

Application Development Execution and Delivery

• Research new innovations and solutions (includes new application , database and operating system technologies for mobile, open source and closed source domains)
• Coordinate and interface with functional design, quality assurance, developers, other product teams, and senior management to ensure needs are met and managed
• Manage to ensure delivery of technical designs, unit test plans, and high quality code. Use relevant repository for documentation and code storage standardisation
• Integration development and impact analysis of solution
• Determine the system requirements as per the specification or client needs
• Design the appropriate system model
• Liaise with the client to ensure the suitability of the model in meeting their needs
• Develop the appropriate software using the relevant development tools (coding)
• Test the system for stability, speed and spec compliance
• Implement roll-out, change control, release management, project and client management

Effective client support

• Incident, problem and release management
• Ensure systems up-time
• Monitor customer support cases
• Assist and provide support to resolve problems
• Deploy proper Help Line protocol and escalation for problem solution
• Monitor adherence to SLAs

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Experience:

• 5 - 7 years’ experience in programming and software implementation
• Experience in application coding in relevant open source or closed source technologies and in mobile coding development
• Experience working with MySQL, POSTMAN and with repository Git and GitHub

Minimum Qualifications:

• Matric
• Relevant IT Degree or Diploma in Software Development (BSc or BCom Informatics would be preferable)
• Relevant Technical Certifications (C#/ Java /SQL Server/ MySQL) would be advantageous

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Familiarity with PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• MVC design patterns
• UI design and good UX practices
• SQL (ideally MSSQL) and SCRUM .Net, C# and WHMCS
• HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, Angular5, Bootstrap, React, NodeJS and Restful Services
• Object-oriented programming
• Time management
• Planning and prioritisation
• Relationship building
• Teamwork & collaboration
• Analysis & problem solving
• Communication skills (verbal & written)
• Object-oriented programming