Senior Software Engineer
Sage
Date: 1 day ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time

Job Description
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long-term objectives using the identified architecture. The Senior Software Engineer will assume ownership in the design, develop and delivery of high-quality products and/or systems and services that exceed customers’ or business partners’ expectations and will proactively share their own knowledge for specific technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility.
Location - 3 days per week in the Johannesburg office.
The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long-term objectives using the identified architecture. The Senior Software Engineer will assume ownership in the design, develop and delivery of high-quality products and/or systems and services that exceed customers’ or business partners’ expectations and will proactively share their own knowledge for specific technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility.
Location - 3 days per week in the Johannesburg office.
- Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of software development to the completion of difficult assignments.
- Successful develop, delivery maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.)
- Work with product managers early on to shape product definition so that it can be built in flexible, extensible, and robust way
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Evaluates progress and results and recommends major changes in procedures.
- Partner effectively with all team members to deliver against commitments
- Thought leader and deliver deep technical expertise for PD that drives colleague engagement, clarity and instils a culture of innovation and execution
- Work cross-functionally with various Sage teams: product management, QA/XD/SD, various product lines, or business units to drive forward results
- Passion for growing and applying technical skills in service to customers
- Extensive experience with Agile Development, SCRUM, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies
- Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards.
- Technology expert in their field.
- Complex problem-solving ability. Innovative and creative thinking.
- Operates with considerable latitude for unreviewed action or decision.
- Ability to interpret and/or gather user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
- Proficient with several relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
- Experienced implementing Architecture Best Practices and Patterns like Microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Domain-Driven Design
- Proven experience in using a TDD approach
- Proven Track record of creating API-first products
- MS Azure experience
- A rapid ‘pick up and learn approach’ that will ensure valuable contribution to any team within days of joining the team
- Very good in spoken and written English
- Innovative and creative thinking
- 5-10 years relevant professional experience, Payroll and/or financial domain expertise is an advantage Technical / professional qualifications (technical skills on at least intermediate, preferably expert level):
- Computer Science (or related degree/qualification)
- Real world application development experience
- C#.Net
- JavaScript client-side framework (ReactJS)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- REST API / Web API
- Carbon REACT
- API development & testing tools – e.g. Postman
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