Developer – Applications & Data

DLK Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

DLK Group in Cape Town seeks a hands-on Developer – Applications & Data to join a local technology team. You will own and improve existing applications, ensure stability, and build new solutions as business needs evolve.

The role emphasizes maintaining live systems, governance, and collaboration with stakeholders. You will work full‑time from the Cape Town office, tackling deployments, data issues, and API integrations as part of a cohesive development effort.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot).
• Ability to read, understand, audit and improve code written by others.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database governance.
• Deployment and rollback experience with Railway, AWS or Google Cloud Run.
• Experience taking over and extending an existing codebase.
• Third‑party API integration experience.
• Proficient with Git in active repositories.
• Independent worker with strong ownership of problems.
• Comfortable maintaining existing applications over rewriting them.
• Strong communication to non-technical stakeholders.
• Eligible to work in South Africa and based in Cape Town (or willing to relocate).

Responsibilities

• Maintain, support and troubleshoot existing production applications.
• Investigate and resolve application, integration and data issues.
• Build and extend applications based on business requirements.
• Manage deployments, logs, troubleshooting and rollbacks.
• Maintain database and application governance.
• Integrate applications with third‑party systems and APIs.
• Maintain and improve technical documentation.
• Work with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Take ownership of existing applications and improve their reliability.

Skills

Code understanding

AI-assisted development tools

SQL

Database governance

Deployments and rollbacks

Codebase ownership

API integration

Git

Independent working

Maintain existing apps

Communication

Discretion

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 28/08/2026

We are looking for a hands-on Developer – Applications & Data to join a Cape Town-based technology team. The role is suited to someone who is comfortable working across an existing application environment, maintaining and improving live systems, and building new applications as business needs evolve.

This is not a purely greenfield development role. A key part of the position is taking ownership of existing applications, understanding how they work, resolving issues, improving governance and ensuring the environment remains stable and maintainable over time.

• Maintain, support and troubleshoot existing production applications.
• Investigate and resolve application, integration and data issues.
• Build and extend applications based on business requirements.
• Manage deployments, logs, troubleshooting and rollbacks.
• Maintain database and application governance.
• Integrate applications with third-party systems and APIs.
• Maintain and improve technical documentation.
• Work directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Take ownership of existing applications and continuously improve their reliability and maintainability.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
• Strong ability to read, understand, audit and improve code written by others.
• Working knowledge of SQL.
• Understanding of database governance and maintenance, including schemas, migrations, access management, environments and backups.
• Experience managing own deployments, troubleshooting logs and performing rollbacks using platforms such as Railway, AWS or Google Cloud Run.
• Experience taking over and extending an existing codebase.
• Third-party API integration experience.
• Confident using Git within an active development repository.
• Able to work independently and take ownership of problems.
• Comfortable maintaining and improving existing applications rather than automatically replacing or rebuilding them.
• Able to communicate technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to work with commercially sensitive information.
• Must be based in Cape Town or willing to relocate at own arrangement.
• Must be able to work full‑time from the Cape Town office – this is not a remote or hybrid role.
• Must have the right to work in South Africa.

Advantageous:

• BigQuery or other cloud data warehouse experience.
• Retail, restaurant, franchise or FMCG experience.
• Point‑of‑sale or ERP integration experience.
• Opportunity to work across a broad application and data environment.
• Exposure to multiple technologies, integrations and operational systems.
• Opportunity to work on both existing production systems and new application development.
• Direct exposure to business stakeholders and operational technology requirements.
• Package to be discussed based on experience and suitability.