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As an experienced .NET developer, you will maintain, extend, and continuously improve our back-end code base. Together with the team lead, you will ensure that our clients (front-end developers and other API clients) have a seamless experience. You will work on/within a microservices platform architecture with challenges such as multi-tenancy, caching, persistence, long-running jobs, messaging, and multi-threading.

If this excites you and you meet the requirements and profile below, we would love to hear from you!

You will work both from home and at our office in Cape Town, alongside a lead developer and a back-end developer. From our NL office, you will be supported by a Product Owner and an Azure deployment engineer.

• Maintain, extend, and refactor our legacy code base.
• Ensure our code base is future-proof by exploring new areas (.NET 6, Nullability, Mediator, Swagger, OpenAPI, etc.).
• Work efficiently and deliver results.
• Implement a test-driven approach, validating and testing your code via unit tests.
• Ensure that the C# core code adheres to SOLID principles and refactor legacy code when needed to increase extendability, testability, readability, and reusability.
• Stay updated on the latest development practices and discuss with the team lead on how to keep our code base current and future-proof.
• Collaborate closely with our Azure engineer on topics like routing, caching, messaging, containerization, authentication, etc.

• Proven experience building high-performing microservices in .NET (ASP) or .NET 6 minimal APIs.
• Experience in unit testing code and services.
• Proficiency with Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider, Git, NuGet, Postman, or other backend development tools.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (using Jira, GitLab, or Azure DevOps).
• Excellent knowledge of C# and .NET Core, .NET 5/6.
• Strong analytical thinking and abstraction skills to simplify complex tasks.
• Nice to have: Experience with Azure AD integration and deployment.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in software engineering or related field.

• Demonstrates tenacity and a willingness to see tasks through to completion.
• Adapts quickly to changing priorities and conditions; copes effectively with complexity.
• Passionate about technology with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Self-starter who acts proactively and brings new ideas.
• Honest, ethical, trustworthy, and transparent in communication.

At Lanza, we develop digital solutions supporting businesses in spare parts management and inventory control. You will help shape and develop the look and feel of the Lanza web applications used by renowned companies across various industries such as defense, aerospace, rail, and manufacturing.

We are establishing a new development operation in South Africa to expand our efforts. Lanza seeks skilled candidates ready for a challenge.

Required Qualifications: Matric, BSc in Software Engineering or relevant equivalent, 3-year tertiary qualification.

Required Experience: At least 3 years in software development, including experience with integration frameworks & techniques, web frameworks (e.g., Angular is beneficial), C# 6/7, SQL, OO Principles, JavaScript, Git, XML, BPMN, Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.

Additional Skills: Clean Code practices, cloud experience on Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS, and experience or willingness to learn cloud cognitive services, AI, and ML services.

Are you passionate about creating exceptional user experiences that serve millions of customers? Do you thrive on leading teams to innovate and deliver best-in-class cloud management solutions? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a talented Software Development Manager (SDM) to join the EC2 Core Console Organization, to develop and manage some of the most critical and widely-used interfaces for AWS customers.

As an SDM in the EC2 Core Console team, you will lead a group of skilled engineers working on both front-end and back-end development. You'll collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX designers, researchers, and data scientists to evolve and expand our console capabilities. Your role will be pivotal in shaping the future of how customers interact with and manage their EC2 and related resources.

The EC2 Console is often the gateway through which customers explore and understand the broader AWS offering. It's crucial in helping users quickly ramp up in new domains, efficiently manage their workloads, and extract maximum value from the cloud. Your team will be at the forefront of simplifying complex cloud operations and enabling our customers to achieve more.

Why it matters :

The EC2 Core Console is at the heart of AWS customer interactions, serving millions of users. Your work will directly impact how businesses of all sizes harness the power of cloud computing. You'll be at the forefront of innovation, helping to simplify complex cloud operations and enable our customers to achieve more. By integrating new technologies like GenAI, you'll help shape the future of cloud management interfaces, making AWS services more accessible and impactful for our diverse customer base.

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering their growth and driving technical excellence
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute on the product roadmap
• Drive data-informed decisions to continuously improve the console experience
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of the EC2 Core Consoles
• Champion best practices in software development, including code quality, testing, and operational excellence
• Represent the team in interactions with senior leadership and key stakeholders
• Balance short-term deliverables with long-term strategic goals
• Innovate on behalf of customers by leveraging high value technologies, including Generative AI and other emerging tools
• Continuously seek ways to simplify complex tasks and improve user productivity within the EC2 Consoles

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Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of engineering team management experience
• 5+ years of engineering experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software / hardware / networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring / coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

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Location: Stellenbosch, GT, ZA

Company: Capitec Bank Ltd

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• Oversee the ongoing drive to increase efficiency, optimisation, innovation and people development in these environments.

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  • crafting roadmaps
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  • using technical skills to support and guide a technical team
  • to establish priorities and successfully manage deliverables
  • utilizing communication and relationship management skills to engage with stakeholders
  • using leadership to influence in other areas.

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• Honours Degree in Commerce or Information Technology - Computer Science

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• People management and development practices and principles
• Budgeting and accounting principles
• Business analysis and design
• Project Management principles and methodologies

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• Capitec Bank Business Model
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Communications Skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills

• Clear criminal and credit record

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We pride ourselves on our culture that is made up of impeccably skilled, passionate professionals. Our team varies from veterans of the industry to fresh faced young bloods who are ready to shape the future.

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Manager to lead and manage our software development team. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise in C# and .NET , solid experience in the insurance industry , and a proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade solutions. This role involves managing development projects, guiding technical decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support the company's digital transformation and business goals.

This will be a contract to permanent role.

Hybrid - office Midrand

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software developers, ensuring high performance and continuous growth.
• Manage the full software development lifecycle, from planning and requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and implementation of scalable and maintainable applications using the C#/.NET stack.
• Collaborate with business analysts, architects, QA engineers, and product owners to deliver high-quality solutions aligned with business requirements.
• Ensure development standards, best practices, and coding guidelines are followed.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, ensuring technical quality and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Manage resource allocation, timelines, risks, and project delivery in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement within the development team.
• Ensure solutions are secure, compliant with relevant regulations (e.g., POPIA), and align with insurance industry requirements.
• Report on development progress and key performance metrics to senior management
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or managerial role.
• Strong proficiency in C#, .NET Core/Framework, and related Microsoft technologies.
• Experience with databases (SQL Server), web APIs, and cloud platforms (preferably Azure).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Prior experience working in the insurance industry or other financial services environments is highly desirable.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
  
  

• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Strategic thinking with strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• High attention to detail and quality assurance.

Join our team of innovative Software Engineers and build the next generation service platforms for AWS, EC2 and our customers.

These services are key components of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) web service.Our platform handles a significant load of Internet traffic generated by internal and external customers that build their solutions on EC2.

On any given day we use Java, Kotlin, Typescript, Python, Ruby and Go as well as various Native AWS services and Amazon-internal tools.

We don't expect you to be an expert in, or know all these technologies, but we do expect you to have strong programming fundamentals and be excited to learn about these technologies.Our team invents, designs and builds software that is stable, scalable and performant.

We write and support code that is easy to understand with solutions that are pragmatic.

We keep a high bar in code reviews to ensure high quality code.Engineers in our teams have great ownership, a drive to innovate and aim to have resounding impact in whatever we build.As a member of this team, you will own and contribute to the development of quality designs & solutions, solving complex problems.

You are able to operate with limited guidance and take a long term view of your team's services and how they fit into the broader architecture.

The services that your team own are used by many teams and you will have opportunities to work and influence engineers and teams outside of your own team to build out EC2 architecture that supports Amazon scale business needs.We follow a DevOps model and we assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a more well rounded engineer that will enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

This position includes on-call duties which is on rotation with the rest of the team.

Our team values work-life balance.As an Amazonian, you will enjoy interacting with some of the most talented engineers in our industry through breakfast talks and demos, internal communities and extensive training material that spans all aspects of our business.We are looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, curious, empathic, motivated and reliable.

The development opportunities are plentiful and we're only just starting to scratch the surface.

If this sounds intriguing to you, then come build with us.Utility Computing (UC)AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry.

As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS.

Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.About the teamAbout AWSDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences.

Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious.

Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer.

That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work / Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony.

Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS3+ years of non-internship professional software development experienceExperience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systemsExperience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented designPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSBachelor's degree in computer science or equivalentAmazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.

In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates.

We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa.

Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

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Software Engineer • Cape Town, Western Cape

Our client based in Midrand is seeking the expertise of an Application Dev Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including planning, organizing, monitoring, and delivery.
• Manage both the development of new strategic applications and the maintenance of existing systems.
• Facilitate regular discussions between business stakeholders and project teams to align on priorities and reach consensus.
• Serve as the technical owner for a portfolio of applications, ensuring their ongoing alignment with business needs.
• Maintain strong working relationships with business units to ensure technical solutions support broader business objectives.
• Lead and coordinate projects or programs within the application area of responsibility.
• Ensure applications evolve to meet changing client or business requirements over time.
• Develop or improve operational processes to support application performance and service delivery.
• Manage vendor relationships, including service delivery and commercial agreements.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and performance management for direct reports, including skill development and goal setting.
• Support the development of IT and business strategies.
• Promote continuous improvement in processes and operational practices within the team.
• Ensure security considerations are embedded in all technical solutions and operations.
• Oversee audit, risk, and compliance activities to meet internal and external regulatory requirements.

Minimum requirements:

B. Com Informatics/B. Engineering/ B.Sc.

Agile or equivalent contemporary development methodology certification

ITIL or equivalent certification

Demonstrated experience in managing scrum team