Game Developer

Betway Africa


Date: 1 day ago
City: Pretoria, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
Kick-start your career in the online gaming world and experience the very latest in technology and innovation.

  • Build games and features, with unit tests that can support our large and growing user base
  • Come up with interesting new game ideas and features – and bring it to life
  • Collaborate with peers to write, review, or provide feedback on a technical design proposal
  • Contribute to internal tools that help us improve our development process, manage our users, and scale our systems.
  • Participate in your teams’ morning standup meeting
  • Coding responsibilities
    • Produce clean maintainable and scalable code
    • Modify/Update code
    • Develop prototypes
    • Ensure that your code have unit tests
    • Maintain well-structured Solutions in Source Control
    • Ensure that major updates to a solution are branched
  • Follow established application design standards, policies, and procedures
  • Ensure all new development/updates/changes go through an appropriate testing process
  • Ensure all code deployed to QA is working and self-tested before handed over to QA
  • Ensure adequate handover to QA is done (Verbal is not adequate)
  • Perform application development/programming analysis duties
  • Install, research, test, and verify proper functioning of software updates
  • Follow established database standards and procedures if applicable
  • Ensure that the dev and staging environments are in a well-managed and maintained state
  • Provide input into the design of software systems, offering advice and thoughts and providing feedback
  • To provide support for a system including analysis, tracking and resolution
  • To utilise approved technologies for the development of systems, or introduce new technologies based on research you have performed
  • Take part in the work planning and tracking process
  • Effectively communicate impediments early enough in a project or sprint task therefore mitigating late delivery
  • Fix known bugs that are running in production
  • Proactively keep abreast of industry developments, skills and technologies and share information, ideas and best practice with other team members and divisions to improve skills
  • Definition of Done: Work delivered, tested, UAT performed and running in production
  • Consult with product manager to ensure understanding of brief/product requirements
  • Develop end to end solutions
  • Solve complex technical problems
  • develop and mentor other developers
  • Have extensive knowledge of the adopted Frameworks and Technologies
  • Deliver at a high velocity
  • Provide team members with technical consultancy and code reviews
  • Insure all applications have sufficient logging and monitoring
  • Insure high up time and low production issues on software
  • Set up and Configure CI/CD pipelines
Core Knowledge/Capabilities

  • RESTful API Development using .NET Core (2+ years’ experience)
  • C# 6.0 (2+ years’ experience)
  • TS/JS (2+ years’ experience)
  • HTML & CSS (2+ years’ experience)
  • MS SQL
  • Unit Testing

Preferred Knowledge/Capabilities

  • Game Development Experience highly advantageous (BabylonJS / Three.js / Unity / Unreal)
  • 3D Modelling (Blender 3D)
  • CSS Preprocessor (Less, SCSS, Sass)
  • Image Editing (Photoshop / Illustrator)
  • Audio Editing (Audacity)
  • Understanding of Agile Methodologies (Scrum & Kanban)
  • Exposure to Azure/AWS/GCP
  • ORM Experience (Linq2Db, EF, EF Core)
  • NuGet Development
  • CI (Azure DevOps)
  • Strong in T-SQL (Joins, Stored Procedures, Views)
  • Good understanding of Probability Math
  • Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.
  • Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.

This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details - therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.

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