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Recruiter:
Network Recruitment
Job Ref:
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Date posted:
Friday, July 18, 2025
Location:
Centurion, South Africa
Salary:
800 000 Annually
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Location: Centurion
We’re looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our client's team. This role is primarily focused on guiding SGD products through the RTCA DO-178C software development life cycle — from planning and requirements gathering to development, testing, and project closure. You'll also support other embedded projects requiring a similar skill set but without the full rigor of RTCA compliance.
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- Key Responsibilities
- Translate system-level requirements into high-level software specifications
- Develop and review DO-178C/V-Model software documentation
- Write test cases and perform software verification and validation
- Design and develop embedded and application-level software (C/C++)
- Contribute to defect investigation, resolution, and integration activities
- Provide technical leadership within a small SCRUM-based team
- Your Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Experience in safety-critical software environments
- Familiarity with the DO-178C process and the V-model lifecycle
- Exposure to military systems (advantageous)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (BEng/BSc)
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- Seniority level Mid-Senior level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries Advertising Services
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Join a world-class team developing high-performance, distributed telecom systems
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Date posted:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Location:
Stellenbosch, South Africa
SUMMARY:
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Join a world-class team developing high-performance, distributed telecom systems
Our client, a medium-sized engineering company based in Stellenbosch, specializes in the design, development, integration, implementation, and support of complex hardware and software systems. They are currently expanding their team of Software Engineers to help architect and develop the company’s next-generation software platform—powering a suite of high-performance, distributed telecommunication applications.
We are looking for passionate and experienced Software Engineers to join this innovative team. You will work with cutting-edge technologies to design and build scalable, distributed backend systems.
Minimum Requirements
- Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Electronic Engineering.
- Experience:
- Mid-level roles: Minimum of 2+ years of relevant software development experience.
- Senior roles: 7+ years of relevant experience, with a solid foundation in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Strong backend development skills using Go, Java, or C++.
- Experience with event-driven systems, particularly Kafka.
- API development experience using gRPC.
- TypeScript and Vue.js experience will be advantageous.
- For Mid-level roles, protocol processing experience will be an added advantage.
- Backend: Go or Java
- Messaging & Streaming: Kafka
- API: gRPC
- Frontend (Bonus): TypeScript, Vue.js
- Strong communication skills.
- Effective planning and organizational skills.
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Passion for programming and technology innovation.
- High attention to detail and commitment to code quality.
- Exciting personal and career growth opportunities.
- A collaborative, relaxed, and innovative work culture.
- The chance to work with state-of-the-art technologies and complex distributed systems.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
- Only SA Citizens will be considered
- Please include your current salary and salary expectations.
- Seniority level Entry level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries Advertising Services
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#J-18808-LjbffrSoftware Engineers - Cape Town Tech Hub
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Software Engineers - Cape Town Tech Hub
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Software Engineers - all levels; 2 years experience to Lead and Principal level
Do you enjoy working with innovative research technology?
Would you like to be part of a team that creates solutions for our customers?
We are expanding our tech hub in Cape Town and are holding fast track interviews on the 28th and 29th June. Interested? Please apply now to be included.
About the Role
As a Software Engineer, you’ll be a key part of our Agile development squad. You will develop exciting, new data-driven solutions that will shape the future of our information business. You will mentor junior team members, share your knowledge, and deliver solutions using your technical expertise.
Responsibilities
- Ability to collaborate, listen, evaluate problems and communicate solutions.
- Participate in the automation of software deployment processes, including building, testing, and deploying applications to various environments (e.g., development, staging, production).
- Collaborate with cross-functional technical teams to identify problems, prototype solutions and build creative solutions.
- Shape operational effectiveness through proactive problem management and automation of manual operational tasks.
Requirements
- Demonstrate good Software Engineering experience gained in an Agile development environment.
- Show interest and enthusiasm in the latest industry technology language development trends and changes.
- Have experience or familiarity with development languages such as C#, Java, Python, PHP & React, Angular, Vue.js.
- Show knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure Cloud environments and services or be willing to learn.
- Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex problems in a simple, concise manner.
- Show the ability to resolve moderately complex and interesting bug fixes.
- Ability to apply test-driven development.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
- Remote & Hybrid Work conditions.
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. As this role is global, benefits may vary according to your location. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
- Health care plans and benefits.
- Life assurance and accident policies.
- Comprehensive pension and retirement plans.
- Access to learning and development resources. Your recruiter will advise you on the benefits package for your location.
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.
LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: , or please contact .
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Do you enjoy working with innovative research technology?
Would you like to be part of a team creates solutions for our customers?
We are expanding our tech hub in Cape Town and are holding fast track interviews on the 28th and 29th June. Interested? Please apply now to be included
About the Role
As a Software Engineer , you'll be a key part of our Agile development squad. You will develop exciting, new data-driven solutions that will shape the future of our information business. You will mentor junior team members, share your knowledge, and deliver solutions using your technical expertise.
Responsibilities
+ Ability to collaborate, listen, evaluate problems and communicate solutions
+ Participate in the automation of software deployment processes, including building, testing, and deploying applications to various environments (e.g., development, staging, production).
+ Collaborating with cross-functional technical teams to identify problems, prototype solutions and build creative solutions
+ Shaping operational effectiveness through proactive problem management and automation of manual operational tasks
Requirements
+ Demonstrate good Software Engineering experience gained in an Agile development environment
+ Show interest and enthusiasm in the latest industry technology language development trends and changes
+ Have experience or familiarity with development languages such as, C#, Java, Python, PHP & React, Angular, Vue.js.
+ Show knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure Cloud environments and services or be willing to learn
+ Have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate complex problems in a simple, concise manner
+ Show the ability to resolve moderately complex and interesting bug fixes
+ Ability to apply test driven development
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
+ Remote & Hybrid Work conditions
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career, as this role is global, benefits may vary according to your location. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
+ Health care plans and benefits
+ Life assurance and accident policies
+ Comprehensive pension and retirement plans
+ Access to learning and development resourcesYour recruiter will advise you on the benefits package for your location
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
LexisNexis, a division of RELX, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: , or please contact .
Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy ( .
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.
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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.
Your responsibilities- 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.
Our new development teamWe are establishing a new development operation in South Africa to expand our efforts. Lanza seeks skilled candidates ready for a challenge.
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Build the systems that optimize how EC2 matches requests for Instances with the underlying compute capacity. EC2 Placement is seeking talented engineers to build the online and offline optimization systems for compute workload scheduling, and the customer capabilities to better manage those workloads. Amazon EC2 provides on-demand scalable compute capacity, and powers some of the largest services in the world. You will collaborate with a top-tier community of engineers to build systems to improve how customers are able to access EC2 compute resources.
The successful candidate will have strong software engineering experience, with a passion for thinking about, building and testing distributed systems. You have an interest in how Machine Learning and other optimization techniques can be applied to large-scale problems. You have demonstrated experience working with a team to design, build and operate large-scale systems. With strong engineering fundamentals, an analytical and data-driven approach to your work, and strong communication skills, you have the ability to collaborate well to deliver results. We move fast and work together on small teams to solve big problems.
If this opportunity sounds interesting, we would love to talk to you more about our work and culture at AWS in Cape Town.
About the teamOur 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.
Basic Qualifications- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- 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
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- 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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Make an impact with NTT DATA
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.
Your day at NTT DATAThe 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.
What you'll be doing Key Responsibilities- 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 working in collaboration 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.
- Subject matter expert in programming languages such as C / C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, libraries and frameworks.
- 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.
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals preferred.
- Relevant agile certifications preferred.
- 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.
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About NTT DATANTT 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.
Equal Opportunity EmployerNTT 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.
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