Team/Technical Lead

Hire Resolve; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks a skilled Software Development Team Lead to join their Johannesburg team. You'll guide a software development team, collaborating on enterprise-grade applications using the Microsoft .NET Core stack. Required skills include C#, MS SQL, and Agile methodologies, with a minimum of 6 years of experience. This role offers a chance to provide technical leadership and mentorship while being part of an agile development team. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills are essential. Salary is negotiable.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a Software Developer.
• Experience with source control management systems and CI/CD environments.
• Collaboration and strong communication skills are essential.
• Strong problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Provide technical leadership through coaching and mentorship.
• Collaborate with team members to design, develop, and maintain applications.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team.
• Identify growth areas and improvements within the team.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts and architects to plan and develop enterprise applications.
• Assist in collecting requirements, user stories, estimates, and work plans.
• Prepare reports and documentation on software status and maintenance.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications per standards.
• Participate in peer design/code reviews and deployment planning.
• Assist migration of legacy apps to current Microsoft technologies.
• Develop and refine integrations between applications.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
• Perform after-hours system checks per support schedules.

Skills

C#

MS SQL; T-SQL

Web API 2 / Core & Rest web services

.NET Core

ASP.Net

HTML 5

JavaScript

Git

Agile development methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

JIRA

MS SQL / T-SQL

Web API 2 / Core

.NET Core

ASP.Net

WinForms

UWP

Entity Framework 6+

Entity Framework Core

LINQ

SSRS

MVC

MSSQL Server

HTML5

JavaScript

Git

JIRA

Agile (Kanban/Scrum)

Job description

Hire Resolve's client is seeking a skilled software developer in a team lead role to join their team in Johannesburg, GP. The Software Development Team Lead will be part of an agile development team, building and working on enterprise grade software systems on top of the Microsoft .NET Core development stack. The Software Development Team Lead will provide technical and team leadership through coaching and mentorship. The successful candidate will need extensive (good practical working) knowledge of the listed programming languages and the Agile software development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Executing full lifecycle software development (SDLC).
• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and desktop-based business applications built on primarily Microsoft technologies.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user’s requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Work with teammates in the migration of legacy applications to current Microsoft technologies.
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
• Performing after-hours checks on systems, processes, and application results as per support schedules to ensure advance warning on any issues and to resolve any such issues before business resumes.

Requirements

• Knowledge of coding languages, systems, patterns, and methodologies:
• C#
• MS SQL; T-SQL
• Web API 2 / Core & Rest web services
• .NET Core
• ASP.Net
• WinForms; UWP
• Entity Framework 6+
• Entity Framework Core
• LINQ
• SSRS
• MVC
• MSSQL Server
• HTML 5
• JavaScript
• Git
• JIRA
• Agile development methodologies
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Facilitate proper design and implementation of software.
• Collaborative
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Resourceful and troubleshooting aptitude
• Strong communication skills
• Strong initiative
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment
• Excellent technical skills, tenacity

Work Experience

• Six + years’ experience as a Software Developer.
• Experience designing and developing enterprise grade software.
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques and theories

Benefits

• Salary: negotiable.

Contact Hire Resolve for your next career-changing move.

Apply for this role today, contact Gaby Turner at [e-mail] or Abigail King at [e-mail].

You can also visit the Hire Resolve website: hireresolve.us or email us your CV: [e-mail].

We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.