Intermediate Software Developer

Betsoftware; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development company is seeking an Intermediate Software Developer based in Cape Town, Western Cape. The ideal candidate should have 3-5 years of experience in development and database management, alongside strong communication skills. Responsibilities include delivering robust solutions and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This position offers opportunities to engage in diverse challenges and contribute to the company's success.

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment is advantageous.
• 2 - 5 years database experience.
• 3 - 5 years server/client-side languages experience is advantageous.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Identify and establish objectives for self and team.
• Deliver a solution which covers all agreed specified tasks.
• Ensure the solution performs appropriately under agreed conditions.
• Provide proactive support to peers and operational teams.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to methods and solutions.

Skills

Development experience

Database experience

Server / client-side languages

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview

Job title : Intermediate Software Developer

Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town

Deadline : November 17, 2025

Responsibilities

• Perform Planning
  • Identify and establish objectives for self and team.
  • Work on objectives or goals within timeline.
  • Consider all reasonable factors, impediments and obstacles.
  • Identify potential alternative strategies and refactor approach for maximum benefit within the shortest possible time.
• Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Functionally Complete
  • Deliver a solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives.
  • Deliver a correct solution which provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision.
  • Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met.
• Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Reliable
  • Ensure the solution performs appropriately under agreed conditions for extended periods of time without the need for intervention (despite potential attacks).
  • Ensure all steps are taken to reduce the occurrence of faults due to misunderstood requirements, design errors, and implementation errors.
  • Ensure the solution is robust and remains continually available.
  • Respond to outages and failures when and where needed.
  • Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal.
  • Ensure complete data recoverability so that data may be recovered, and the desired state of the solution can be re-established (despite potential attacks).
  • Ensure the solution is maintainable, and actively seek methods to reduce down-time.
  • Ensure the solution is durable so that as user volumes and requirements change the solution can evolve over the long term
  • Ensure the solution simplifies support and maintenance support through traceability, and effective error messaging.
  • Ensure over time, the solution becomes more mature where the interval between the interventions to remain operational become less frequent.
  • Ensure in the event of a failure reduce effective downtime to the minimum possible.
• Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security
  • Ensure the solution is secure, and confidential by protecting all information and data (also data transmission).
  • Ensure persons or other solutions have the degree of access appropriate to their level of authorization and types.
  • Ensure the solution has high integrity where the solution prevents unauthorised access to, modification of computer programs, data, or settings.
  • Ensure the solution has a high degree of survivability despite third-Party interventions (attacks, human errors, hardware or software faults).
  • Employ logs and records so that actions and events can be proven to have taken place and cannot be disputed / repudiated later.
  • Ensure wherever possible actions can be traced uniquely to the entity which performed it.
  • Ensure wherever possible the identify of an entity can be proved to be the correct one.
• Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Maintainable
  • Ensure the solution and its relevant code base supports ease of modification for future maintainers.
  • Ensure the use of appropriate standards and methods.
  • Ensure where possible (without affecting performance / security) the solution caters for maintenance by support teams rather than developers.
  • Ensure modularity where the solution consists of discrete components so that a change in one component has minimal impact on other components.
  • Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support burden.
  • Apply a strategy of reusability so an asset can be used in more than one solution or in building other assets.
  • Where possible provide a mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
  • Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.
• Verify Deployed Solutions
  • Ensure the solution is delivered completely and with the additional assets which are required to make installation / deployment as seamless and easy as possible.
  • Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving, software or other operational usage environments.
• Respond to Outages & Failures
  • Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams so 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 trouble shooting 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.
  • 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.
• Direct 3rd Party Development Partners
  • When required supply appropriate information, domain knowledge and access to partners.
  • Provide timely, relevant and constructive feedback to assist the partner to achieve success.
  • Take corrective action when deviation from the plan is observed.
  • Take all appropriate steps to ensure organisational success.
  • Engages in cross-functional collaboration and problem solving whilst encourages a culture of inclusivity.
  • Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
  • Shows up in an authentic manner and leverages off the team’s diversity to achieve deliverables.Views
  • Challenges as opportunities to expand on their knowledge base as well as encourages junior team members to do the same and takes a creative approach to overcoming the challenges.

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment is advantageous.
• 2 - 5 years database experience
• 3 -5 years server / client- side languages are advantageous.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail

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Apply Before 11 / 17 / 2025

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