Intermediate Software Development Engineer

Winning Form; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software provider in Cape Town seeks an Intermediate Software Development Engineer with 3-5 years of development experience. The role involves planning, delivering reliable software solutions, and ensuring high performance and security standards. Successful candidates should have database experience and demonstrate adaptability in a fast-paced environment. Opportunities for growth and collaboration in a hybrid working model are offered.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience within a development environment is advantageous.
• 2-5 years database experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform planning and establish objectives for self and team.
• Deliver a solution covering all agreed specified tasks and user objectives.
• Ensure solution maintains performance and reliability under agreed conditions.

Skills

Database experience

Adaptability

Problem-solving

Education

3-5 years experience in development

2-5 years database experience

Job description

Intermediate Software Development Engineer

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (Hybrid)

Job Info

• Job Identification 763
• Job Category Information and Communication Technology
• Posting Date 01/07/2026, 09:53 AM
• Locations 3, Cape Town, Western Cape, 7441, ZA (Hybrid)
• Apply Before 02/27/2026, 09:53 AM

About Us

We Don\'t Just Recruit Talent... We Cultivate It

BET Software is one of the most diverse betting software providers in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a rapidly growing international footprint. Our multiskilled Team is responsible for providing advanced software solutions, while supporting incredibly high transactional volumes in a fast-paced industry, making BET Software a lively and engaging place to be.

Our progressive use of technology enables our talented Team to work with the tech stack of their choice and we encourage an environment and culture that supports collaboration, learning, and growth. We believe that our strength lies in our diversity and that Teamwork makes the dream work, a place where you can flourish amongst like-minded individuals.

We are a dynamic group of people that stem from a variety of cultures, backgrounds, and locations. While our head office is based in Umhlanga, South Africa we recruit talent throughout South Africa and Internationally.

Responsibilities

Perform Planning

• 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.

Technical Outputs:

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 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.
• 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.
• Ensure the solution is maintainable and actively seek methods to reduce downtime.
• 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 interventions to remain operational becomes less frequent.
• 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.
• Employ logs and records so that actions and events can be proven to have taken place and cannot be disputed later.
• Ensure wherever possible actions can be traced uniquely to the entity which performed it.
• Wherever possible the identity of an entity can be proven to be the correct one.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Maintainable

• Ensure the solution and its relevant codebases support ease of modification for future maintainers.
• Ensure the use of appropriate standards and methods.
• Ensure where possible (without affecting performance or 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 others.
• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams and 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 required to make installation/deployment seamless.
• Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving software or other operational usage environments.

Respond to Outages and 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 SOPs.
• Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your team\'s 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.
• Maintains 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 organizational success.

Behavioural Outputs:

Adaptably Resilient

• Adapt to change and be open to wide as and willing to take on new responsibilities.
• Able to handle pressure and can effectively adjust plans to meet changing needs/demands.
• Change his/her interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstances.
• Adapts behaviour to maintain cooperative relationships with others.
• Accepts changes to task, plans and procedures in order to align with strategic direction of the organization and appropriately adjusts behaviour and activities to changing conditions.
• Maintains a positive attitude in the face of change.

Decision Making Quality

• Makes confident, timely, fact-based decisions drawing on a broad range of resources through collaboration with others.
• Ensures others understand the decision before moving forward.
• Considers short- and long-term implications of the decision.
• Able to logically defend and explain judgements and decisions.
• Takes steps to accurately define the problem before seeking a solution.
• Bases decisions and evaluations on a careful and systematic review of relevant facts and information.

Resourceful and Improving

• Generates new ideas and challenges the status quo, takes risk, supports change and encourages innovation.
• Searches for opportunities to create new ideas and innovate or improve efficiencies where possible.
• Solves problems through questioning the status quo.

Living our Spirit

• Engages in cross-functional collaboration and problem solving whilst encouraging a culture of inclusivity.
• Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other 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 their knowledge base and 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

Required Skills

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