Junior Software Development Engineer (CPT)

We Want You:

Kick-start your coding career with BET Software! We're on the hunt for a Junior Software Development Engineer (React) to join our innovative Cape Town team. In this role, you’ll develop, debug and troubleshoot software solutions while collaborating with a dynamic team. If you’re passionate about coding and eager to grow, apply today.

You Bring:

• Minimum 1 years’ experience within a development environment.
• 1-year database experience.
• 1 - 2 years server/client-side language.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

What You’ll Do:

• Design solutions using most appropriate approved architectural pattern.
• Design solutions for multi-tier architectures.
• Ensure design meets best practices and are Test, DevOps and Support friendly.

Perform Planning

• Identify and establish objectives for self.
• Work on objectives or goals within timeline.
• Consider all reasonable factors, impediments, and obstacles.

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 has a High Usability Factor

• Ensure the user/s of the solution can achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction.
• Ensure the system logically supports user self-learning on how to use the system with effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ensure the solution protects the user against making errors.
• Ensure the user interface is pleasing and presents a satisfying interaction for the user.

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.
• Respond to outages and failures when and where needed.
• Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal.
• 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.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security

• Ensure the solution is secure, and confidential by protecting all information and data.
• Ensure persons or other solutions have the degree of access appropriate to their level of authorisation.
• 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.
• Ensure wherever actions can be traced uniquely to the entity which performed it.
• Ensure wherever possible the identity of an entity can be proved to be the correct one.

Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Maintainable

• Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support burden.

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.

Respond to Outages & Failures

• Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams to maximise development time.
• Provide support to the Dev Support when required during operational events.
• 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.
• Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
• Provide quick resolutions to app/system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Maintain 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.

Behavioural Outputs:

Adaptably Resilient

• Adapts to change and is open to innovative ideas.
• Able to manage pressure and can effectively adjust plans to meet changing needs/demands.
• Changes his/her interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstances.
• Adapts behaviour to maintain cooperative relationships with others.
• 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.
• 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.

Resourceful and Improving

• Generates new ideas and challenges the status quo.
• Searches for opportunity to create new ideas and innovate or improve efficiencies.

The Company We Keep:
At BET Software, we don't just recruit talent, we cultivate it. Our learning and development programmes, our various opportunities for growth, and our well-deserved incentives are what keep our All-Star Team the best amongst the rest.

Please note that only Team members who meet the stipulated minimum requirements will be considered. If you have not been contacted within 30 days, kindly consider your application to be unsuccessful.