Cape Town: Software Developer (Full stack, Web, Desktop and Mobile) posted by Rory Mackie & Associates

Overview:

Our client is a South African investment management and financial planning business, offering innovative tools to help investors reach their goals. The company has recently launched a new multi-manager brand and website, expanding its presence in the asset management space. Together with its analytics platform, their focus is on developing digital applications that deliver powerful portfolio insights and reporting tools for advisers and clients.

While graduate (entry level) applicants are encouraged, the role may also be offered to candidates with 3 – 5 years of relevant experience. The ideal candidate will have a background in computer science (or similar) and practical exposure to software/app development. Theyll play a hands-on role in building, enhancing, and maintaining the clients’ desktop, mobile and web apps.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and deploy new features for the clients’ applications (desktop, mobile and web), ensuring high usability and performance
• Maintain and enhance existing codebases with clean, documented, testable and scalable solutions
• Maintain and implement new cloud (Azure) infrastructure.
• Collaborate in agile teams – participate in planning, daily stand-ups, sprint execution, and retrospectives
• Write unit and integration tests; ensure software quality, reliability, and responsiveness
• Assist in UI/UX improvements by translating business needs into functional app components
• Work with APIs and ensure seamless backend-server communication
• Address bug fixes, performance optimization, and rollout of incremental updates
• Contribute to troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and support post-deployment
• Document functionality clearly for future maintainability
• Stay updated with new technologies and apply continuous improvement to products
• Create, monitor and test backup infrastructure.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science/relevant diploma, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Completion of app development courses, internships, or relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, Git, mobile frameworks) – desirable

Skills:

• General: C#, SQL, HTML etc.
• Mobile development languages:
  • .Net Maui
• Cross-platform frameworks: Any
• Backend & APIs: Basic knowledge of RESTful APIs, JSON, and database interaction (SQL/NoSQL)
• Version control: Git/GitHub or GitLab for collaborative development
• Fundamentals: Object-oriented programming (OOP), debugging, and testing practices