192 Software Apprenticeship jobs in South Africa

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Join an experienced and exciting team that is looking for energetic and talented professionals. We design, code, and deploy meaningful software using modern tools. Come help us do this even more effectively for our market-leading clients.

Work with smart, focused colleagues who believe in technical growth. Watch your skills and abilities rapidly improve as you drive your deliverables for your team and our clients.

Kaleidocode (KC) is a leading consultancy that is growing rapidly. Our specialty is designing and building complex enterprise systems for progressive corporate clients. Our team has extensive experience in software development and consulting, making waves as a dynamic software house serving an increasingly global client base.

We strongly believe that software should be built with meaning. We get genuinely excited about the software we create and care deeply about how it's built.

We enjoy working in a friendly team culture, with flexible working hours, remote work options, and opportunities for skills development and career growth for everyone.

Working at Kaleidocode, you will get:

• Interesting, challenging, and rewarding work
• Weekly dedicated learning sessions to develop your skills
• A mentor to help set goals and provide career advice
• Exposure to a variety of technologies and processes to expand your skill set
• A comfortable working environment at the office
• Remote working options
• Flexible working hours
• The opportunity to work in a diverse team
• Friendly and fun colleagues

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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.

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

The Software Development Engineer is a seasoned subject matter expert, tasked with participating in designing, developing, and testing software systems, modules, or applications for software enhancements and new products including cloud-based or internet-related tools.

This role is accountable for participating in detailed design for certain modules / sub-systems, doing prototype for multi-vendor infrastructure, and showcasing it internally or externally to clients.

This role designs and develops functionality in a micro-services environment working with APIs, telemetry data, and running ML / AI algorithms on it, working with both structured and unstructured data.

• Designs and develops solutions and functionality that drives the growth of business.
• Accountable for writing and testing code.
• Accountable for execution of automated testing.
• Contributes to software deployment.
• Works across multiple teams to deliver software components while collaborating with the product team.
• Contributes to the integration and building of solutions through automation and coding, using 3rd party software.
• Creates, crafts and debugs large scale distributed systems.
• Contributes to writing, updating and maintaining the technical program, end-user documentation, and operational procedures.
• Accountable for refactoring code.
• Works across multiple teams to review code written by other developers.
• Performs any other related task as required.

• Excellent understanding of cloud architecture and services in multiple public clouds like AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Office 365.
• Seasoned expertise of data structures, algorithms, and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Seasoned knowledge of micro services-based software architecture and experience with API product development.
• Seasoned expertise in SQL and no-SQL data stores including Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Cassandra.
• Seasoned understanding of container run time (Kubernetes, Docker, LXC / LXD).
• Seasoned proficiency with agile, lean practices and believes in test-driven development.
• Possess a can-do attitude and one that takes initiative.
• Excellent ability to work well in a diverse team with different backgrounds and experience levels.
• Excellent ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Seasoned proficiency with CI / CD concepts and tools.
• Seasoned proficiency with cloud-based infrastructure and deployments.
• Excellent attention to detail.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.

• Seasoned experience working with geo-distributed teams through innovation, bootstrapping, pilot, and production phases with multiple stakeholders to the highest levels of quality and performance.
• Seasoned experience with tools across full software delivery lifecycle, for example, IDE, source control, CI, test, mocking, work tracking, defect management.
• Seasoned experience in Agile and Lean methodologies, Continuous Delivery / DevOps, Analytics / data-driven processes.
• Seasoned proficiency in working with large data sets and ability to apply proper ML / AI algorithms.
• Seasoned experience in developing micro-services and RESTful APIs.
• Seasoned experience in software development.

Workplace type : Hybrid Working

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.

Job Description

We are exclusively representing a major force in the South African payments and lending sector. As a subsidiary of a household-name retail giant our client provides innovative financial products and services to a massive and diverse customer base. They are on a mission to drive financial inclusion and are investing heavily in their technology platform to support this strategic goal. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a critical technology function within a stable high-impact business.

The core mission for this role is to transform the existing software development function into a world-class high-performance engineering and delivery engine. The current environment is ripe for evolution requiring a leader who can move beyond day-to-day management to architect a scalable agile and quality-first culture. You will be responsible for maturing processes mentoring leaders and ensuring that every line of code directly contributes to strategic business outcomes from enhancing customer experience to driving operational efficiency.

Performance Objectives for Year One

Success in this role will be measured by your ability to achieve the following in the first 12 months :

• Elevate Agile Delivery & Predictability : Lead the evolution of the agile framework (Scrum / Kanban) across multiple development teams. The goal is to establish a rhythm of predictable high-quality software releases demonstrably improving delivery velocity and reducing post-deployment incidents.
• Architect and Implement a Modern SDLC : Take full ownership of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). You will re-engineer and standardize the process embedding best practices for secure development CI / CD and test automation to significantly improve both the quality and frequency of deployments.
• Build a High-Performance Engineering Culture : Reshape the development team by attracting mentoring and retaining top-tier talent. You will establish clear career paths and succession plans fostering a psychologically safe environment of continuous learning technical excellence and accountability.
• Align Technology Delivery with Business Strategy : Partner directly with Product and Architecture leads to translate the companys strategic vision into a concrete actionable technology roadmap. You will ensure that all development initiatives are prioritized based on measurable business value and ROI.
• Optimize Vendor and Budget Management : Conduct a strategic review of all external development partners and contractors. You will rationalize vendor engagements renegotiate SLAs where necessary and manage the software delivery budget to ensure maximum return on technology investment.

Profile for Success

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Job title : Software Development Manager

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg Deadline : September 26, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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Responsibilities

What You’ll Do :

Strategy, objectives and execution

• Create, agree and execute software development road maps and operational strategy for projects coming into the business in collaboration with respective team members through proper documentation, communication and execution.
• Build effective customer centric relationships through measurements of performance and usage and engagement and involvement with customers by creating clear visibility through strategies and roadmaps.
• Sets and achieves efficient delivery objectives of their teams by ensuring individual and team strategy with clear and measurable objectives that align with organisational goals.
• Hold team accountable through road maps and individual performance contracts through consistent communication of delivery milestones.
• Accountable for articulating, monitoring, reporting and achieving realisation.
• Development of long-term strategic thinking incorporating demand forecasting for product or future projects.
• Utilisation of data metrics in order to make data driven decisions.

Knowledge management

• Identifies and responds to situation / organisational / market requirements by creating a culture of innovation and opportunity identification by team.
• Facilitates change management due to changing situational requirements e.g., restructure changes or adoption of new technologies.
• Supports and aligns standards across BET by allocating agreed commitments to strategy / roadmap communication and implementation.
• Maintains product(s) knowledge as well as general product knowledge by being able to represent your product strategy in detail.
• Ensure the established procedures and processes are accurately documented, communicated, implemented, and agreed with product and / or project teams.
• Acts as escalation point for issues and ensures effective communication and resolution activities are in place.
• Effectively liaise and communicate with both internal and external key stakeholders at senior level to manage day to day issues, escalations, and expectations.
• Ensure all operational communication with customers / partners are documented and effectively circulated to stakeholders making use of collaborative tools.
• Engage with executive members or equivalent at customers / partners to ensure collaboration at all levels.
• Engage with the wider business and if needed hold strategic knowledge sharing sessions.
• Maintain and facilitate strategic stakeholder and communication analysis.

Behavioral Outputs : Talent Management

• Ensure that the team members are equipped with the requisite skills for both current and future projects facilitating a career and training development plan for each team member.
• Provide and facilitate mentoring and coaching by driving knowledge sharing.
• Creates a culture that is aligned to the platform ‘’Be a good citizen’’ mantra, where respect, openness, and integrity are the foundation for a culture that cultivates, creates and executes our vision.
• Succession planning and key man reliance – ensuring the right people are in the right roles and being developed accordingly, ensuring business continuity through minimising key man reliance.
• Talent acquisition, ensuring that we are committed to hiring the best quality people for optimal achievement of results.
• Ensure business continuity through minimizing key man reliance.

Adaptably Resilient

• Adapts to change and is open to new ideas and willing to take on new responsibilities.
• Able to handle pressure and can effectively adjust plans to meet changing needs / demands.
• Changes his / her interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstances.
• Adapts behaviour to maintain cooperative relationships with others.
• Accepts changes to task, plans and procedures in order to align with strategic direction of the organization and appropriately adjusts behaviour and activities to changing conditions.
• Maintains a positive attitude in the face of change.

Decision Making Quality

• Makes confident, timely, fact-based decisions drawing on a broad range of resources through collaboration with others.
• Ensures others understand the decision before moving forward.
• Considers short- and long-term implications of the decision.
• Able to logically defend and explain judgements and decisions.
• Takes steps to accurately define the problem before seeking a solution.
• Bases decisions and evaluations on a careful and systematic review of relevant facts and information.

Develops Talent

• Collaboratively works with the leads to set performance goals and measures.
• Ensures performance measures are clear, measurable, and achievable.
• Ensures consistency of expectations across teams.
• Gives regular structured feedback to teams and seconded members.
• Ensure that the team members are equipped with the requisite skill-sets required for both current and future projects by developing a training and career development plan.
• Maintain a current and future skill matrix.
• Have training and development plans in place and ensure execution of the plan.
• Encourage and build a culture of innovation and collaboration.
• Create a culture for teams that are aligned to the platforms and BET values.

Resourceful and improving

• Generates new ideas and challenges the status quo, takes risk, supports change and encourages innovation.
• Searches for opportunity to create new ideas and innovate or improve efficiencies wherever possible.
• Solves problems through questioning the status quo.

Qualifications

You Bring :

• At least 3-5 years’ experience managing software development teams and leads.
• At least 6 years in a technical role within the IT software development industry.
• Prior experience ensuring timely project delivery.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance to development team.
• Ensure development standards and development SDLC is adhered to by the development team.
• Ability to work under pressure and in a fast-paced growing environment.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Reporting skills at Senior Management level.
• Prior stakeholder and team lead management

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 team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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.
About 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.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
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.
Mentorship & 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.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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.

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