Trainee Software Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities:
* Based on discussions with your SCRUM Team design applications according to end user needs.
* Track projects, tasks and bugs using the company specified work tracking system.
* Understand requirements from a business perspective and contribute to designing clear, easy-to-use applications from a user perspective.
* Involved in the creation of completely new applications or, build upon the functionality of existing ones.
* Work closely with others in the teams/team members to come up with the best possible solutions for the applications.
* Involved in the development of the company’s technology solutions to improve functionality, user-friendliness and presentation of our products.
* Involved in independent research contributing to technical discussions where required. * Understand and contribute toward the level of code quality and test coverage within the SCRUM Team.
* Engage in technical discussion contributing to design and development.
* Liaise with Business Analysts, Product Managers and/or internal/external customers to ensure that requirements are understood.
* Understand and contribute toward the practice of BDD/TDD/DDD as part of the software engineer best practice.
* Participate in peer code reviews.
* Ensure compliance of final product with end-user specifications through regular reviews with designated end-user groups where applicable.
* This could include testing functionality of your own and colleagues’ code for performance and effecting changes to code as required.
* Regular code reviews with colleagues to identify bugs and performance problems ensuring code and product quality.
* Monitor, analyze and act on post-deployment bugs.
* Review of user feedback and proposing/implementing action plans for development based on discussion with your team.
* Provide any required support to end-users of the applications.
* Contribute to the training of team members on agile development practices, use of appropriate design patterns and SOLID/design principles in their day-to-day work.
* Contribute to the technical ownership of projects/tasks ensuring their successful completion to project deadlines.
* Ensure the writing of concise documentation for applications and websites.
* Show initiative to use new technologies and methodologies that will benefit projects and responding to the introduction of software advances and upgrades.

Key Skills
* Good oral and written communication skills.
* Good administrative and organisational skills.
* Self-motivation and drive to take on personal responsibility.
* Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality.
* Critical reasoning and decision-making skills.