Mid-Level Software Developer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Cape Town is seeking a Mid-Level Software Developer to translate business needs into robust software solutions that drive commercial outcomes. You will work with cross‑functional teams to design, build, test, and maintain systems that support operations and customer delivery.

The role requires hands‑on experience with modern languages, databases, REST, AWS, and front‑end frameworks such as Flutter, with a track record of delivering production systems and mentoring

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience in at least one modern language.
• Strong knowledge of databases, data structures, algorithms, REST and modern architectures.
• Experience delivering mobile or serverless applications.
• Ability to take a project from identifying objectives, defining the testing plan, implementing testing all the way through to actual launch.

Responsibilities

• Understand the primary commercial imperatives
• Envision the technology that will support the commercial imperatives with feedback from the in-country operations teams and sales network
• Design, build, test, maintain and manage robust software solutions to enable the operations team to achieve their jobs and ultimately the companies objective to serve customers
• Support and mentor Junior Developersin embedding healthy code practice and principles.
• In the early project phase, this means architecture, data model and interface design, and in the implementation phase with review, release planning and execution.

Skills

Software development experience

Object‑oriented design

Databases and algorithms

REST and modern architectures

Mobile/serverless apps

Project conception to launch

Leadership and communication

AWS (Lambda/API Gateway/load balancing

Flutter or modern frontend framework

Production systems 24x7

CI/CD pipelines and source control

Tools

AWS

Flutter

CI/CD tooling

REST APIs

Job description

About the job Mid-Level Software Developer

• A desire to achieve commercial outcomes
• 2+ years of professional software development experience working with at least one modern language such as Java, Typescript, C++, or C# including object‑oriented design
• Strong knowledge of databases, data structures, algorithms, REST and modern architectures
• Experience in delivering mobile applications or serverless applications
• Ability to take a project from identifying objectives, defining the testing plan, implementing testing all the way through to actual launch of the project and ongoing monitoring of the performance of the project.
• Excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating
• Experience using Amazon Web Services, including Lambda, API Gateway, and load balancing
• Experience with Flutter or other modern front‑end frameworks
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
• Knowledge implementing collaboration tools and CI/CD pipelines for source control management, build, testing, release and and operations.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities

Responsibilities

• Understand the primary commercial imperatives
• Envision the technology that will support the commercial imperatives with feedback from the in-country operations teams and sales network
• Design, build, test, maintain and manage robust software solutions to enable the operations team to achieve their jobs and ultimately the companies objective to serve customers
• Support and mentor Junior Developersin embedding healthy code practice and principles.
• In the early project phase, this means architecture, data model and interface design, and in the implementation phase with review, release planning and execution.