Software Developer | Jhb/ Cape Town (Hybrid)

Software Developer

Johannesburg/Cape Town

Hybrid

Join a global platform provider in the wealth management who has partnered with hundreds of the world’s leading financial institutions.

Over 4000 employees in 21 countries, the companies’ mission is to open-up wealth, empowering all people to create wealth through personal investment, aligned with things they care about the most, on their own terms.

The organisation combines technology, infrastructure and investment operations in a single state-of-the-art platform that frees its institutional customers to create hyper-personalized and innovative products and services, that are seamlessly aligned with the needs of their clients.

Job Role

Design and build the highly intuitive user interface and interactive financial tools required by financial advisers and investors.

Responsibilities:

• Develop real-time transaction processing systems that support millions of trades every day in investment securities in multiple world markets.
• Work closely with our business analysts to design and implement new functionality for our major institutional customers around the world.
• Assist in the preparation and documentation of software requirements and specifications.
• Develop unit tests to ensure required quality gateways are met.
• Execute best practice with regards to software development.
• Take an active role in understanding the business domain and contributing to requirements gathering.
• Conduct research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Liaise with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.
• The completion of agreed training / self-improvement activities in line with agreed career development plan.
• Delivery of agreed outputs within agreed timeframes or the successful negotiation of new time frames.
• Actively communicate the status of assigned items of work to project team, project manager or delivery manager.
• Actively seek opportunities to provide assistance to peers.
• Actively identify and promote opportunities for application efficiency improvements or performance improvements.

Requirements:

• University Degree in IT (at least Bachelor’s degree).
• Agile experience preferable.
• Experience with writing unit tests is an advantage.
• Sense of writing clean code.
• Understanding main Software Design principles and best practices.
• Experience with Microsoft .NET development products, including C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET and SQL Server is advantageous.
• Experience in or knowledge of the following would be an advantage:
  • Iterative approach to development
  • Continuous Integration and Deployment
  • Cloud based deployments
  • DevOps