NetSuite Developer

Aculocity; Durbanville, Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Aculocity is seeking a NetSuite Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and support NetSuite solutions with cross‑functional teams. You’ll translate operational needs into secure, maintainable software from requirements through deployment and production support.

You’ll own customizations with SuiteScript 2.x, SuiteFlow, SuiteTalk, RESTlets, SuiteQL, and integrations while ensuring data integrity, security, and scalable processes across sales orders, inventory, and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/IS/SE.
• 3+ years of enterprise app or ERP development experience.
• 2+ years of NetSuite development and support experience.
• Strong SuiteScript 2.x and JavaScript skills.
• Experience delivering or contributing to at least one production integration.
• Practical SQL and data-analysis skills.
• Experience across development, sandbox, UAT and production environments.
• Understanding of authentication, permissions, API security and credential handling.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, dependencies, risks clearly.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain NetSuite customizations using SuiteScript 2.x, SuiteFlow, SuiteTalk, RESTlets, SuiteQL, and saved searches.
• Translate requirements into designs, estimates, tasks, tests, and deployment plans.
• Support sales orders, purchasing, inventory, fulfillment, e-commerce, and reporting processes.
• Build integrations connecting NetSuite with external systems via APIs or middleware.
• Maintain security with least-privilege access and secure credential handling.
• Test across sandbox, UAT, release-preview, and production; prepare deployment steps and rollback plans.
• Collaborate, review code, document runbooks, and guide junior engineers.

Skills

SuiteScript 2.x

JavaScript

SuiteFlow

SuiteQL

NetSuite integration

Saved searches

RESTlets

SuiteTalk

SQL

Data analysis

Authentication & security

Communication of decisions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

NetSuite

Azure DevOps

Git

SQL tooling

Job description

Aculocity

Join the dynamic and fast-paced world of Aculocity, a global technology consulting company dedicated to revolutionizing business processes through cutting-edge technology solutions. Since our formal inception in 2006 (and informal in 1999), we've been at the forefront of delivering tailor-made software development solutions, seamless software system implementations, powerful business intelligence, and innovative business process solutions.

NetSuite Engineer | Aculocity

Location: Cape Town South Africa

Aculocity is seeking a NetSuite Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and support solutions across the NetSuite platform. You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, engineers, product owners, support teams, and external partners to translate operational needs into secure, maintainable, and reliable solutions.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong NetSuite development skills with practical business understanding and takes ownership from requirements clarification through deployment and production support.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain customizations using SuiteScript 2.x, SuiteFlow, SuiteTalk, RESTlets, SuiteQL, saved searches, custom records, forms, and fields. Evaluate native capabilities before recommending custom development.
• Translate requirements into delivery plans: Create technical designs, estimates, development tasks, test scenarios, and deployment plans while identifying dependencies and effects across connected systems.
• Support key business processes: Deliver solutions for sales orders, purchasing, inventory, receiving, fulfillment, drop-ship processing, item management, e-commerce transactions, and reporting.
• Build dependable integrations: Connect NetSuite with enterprise platforms using APIs, scripts, files, or approved middleware, incorporating validation, authentication, error handling, retries, duplicate prevention, logging, and reconciliation.
• Maintain quality and security: Apply coding standards, reusable development patterns, least-privilege access, secure credential handling, and appropriate protection of sensitive data. Address technical debt and improve existing customizations.
• Test and deploy confidently: Perform developer testing and support business testing across sandbox, UAT, release-preview, and production environments. Prepare deployment instructions, validation steps, rollback procedures, and support notes.
• Support production operations: Diagnose incidents and failed transactions, complete root-cause analysis, implement preventative improvements, and establish monitoring, alerts, and failure notifications.
• Collaborate and share knowledge: Use source control, participate in peer reviews, maintain technical documentation and runbooks, support work-request triage, and provide guidance to junior engineers.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 3+ years of enterprise application development or ERP engineering experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on NetSuite development and support experience.
• Strong SuiteScript 2.x and JavaScript skills.
• Experience with SuiteFlow, custom records, saved searches, SuiteQL, transaction scripting, and NetSuite configuration.
• Experience delivering or substantially contributing to at least one production integration.
• Practical SQL and data-analysis skills.
• Experience working across development, sandbox, UAT, and production environments and supporting business-critical production systems.
• Working understanding of authentication, permissions, access control, API security, and credential handling.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs clearly.

Experience That Sets You Apart

• SuiteCommerce or SuiteCommerce Advanced development and support.
• SuiteCloud Development Framework.
• NetSuite release-preview and upgrade testing.
• High-volume item, inventory, order, warehouse, fulfillment, or e-commerce environments.
• Map/Reduce, scheduled processing, and high-volume data handling.
• Azure DevOps, Git, automated testing, or continuous integration and delivery tooling.
• Integration middleware or enterprise integration patterns.
• Order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, receiving, or drop-ship processes.
• Collaboration with NetSuite support, implementation partners, or specialist vendors.
• NetSuite certification or formal NetSuite training.

What Success Looks Like

You’ll independently own moderately complex solutions, work with limited day-to-day supervision, and provide clear visibility into progress, scope changes, and blockers. Your work will meet business requirements, account for platform governance limits and performance needs, and include the testing, monitoring, documentation, and rollback planning needed for reliable operations.

You’ll make recommendations within established architecture and governance standards, escape material risks before deployment, and deliver solutions that other engineers can confidently maintain and support.

Job Duties Disclaimer:

The duties and responsibilities outlined here are representative but not exhaustive of the tasks that the employee may be required to perform. Management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other tasks as necessary to meet business needs.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Aculocity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable Accommodations (ADA Compliance):

Aculocity complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Employees who require assistance or accommodation should contact Human Resources.