Senior Back-End Developer
Listing reference: track_001436
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 29 August 2025
Position summary
Industry: IT & Internet
Job category: Application Development and Programming
Location: Centurion
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
Introduction
Tracker requires the services of a Senior back-end developer in our Development and Engineering Department. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver solutions to achieve customer satisfaction, while working within a team. Should you be interested in this challenge and meet the job requirements, please forward your application before the closing date.
Job description
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Technical leadership in delivery of products and solutions, within and across teams.
- Effective management of all staff in the team.
- Continuously align delivery to the Tracker and team strategy and planning.
- Provide input into the annual salary review process as and when required.
- Deliver strategic projects on time, in budget, with the desired functionality, at the defined quality level in a sustainable way.
- Assist in definition and design architecture/technical implementation related to area of responsibility, while collaborating with other managers, leads and architects.
- Meet best practice criteria in the evaluation and testing of software.
- Assure that team members adhere to and follow these practices.
- Complete work orders in appropriate timescales.
- Maintain and systems without introducing new defects.
- Enhance systems to support and move to new technologies.
- Share knowledge with development and support teams.
- Document systems, including enhancements to facilitate knowledge sharing.
- Mentor and coach Junior Developers.
- Ensure that the best practice development processes and standards are followed.
- Effective use of development toolset.
- Follow department development standards
Minimum requirements
- Degree / Diploma with 4 years to 6 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in SCRUM AGILE methodology.
- Experience in C# required.
- Experience in .NET Core, WCF, and WebAPI an advantage.
- Experience with Azure DevOps (TFS and GIT) or MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) would be advantageous
- Experience in SQL Server 2016/9, including:
- Relational database design
- Extensive and complex SQL queries
- Experience in SQL Reporting Services advantageous
- Experience with message queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ, ApacheMQ, Kafka would be advantageous.
- Multi-threaded and parallel development experience advantageous.
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) experience beneficial.
- Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) designation is advantage.
- Exposure to good coding standard practices and source code configuration management.
- Experience in SOLID, KISS, TDD, DDD and Clean Coding practices
- High attention to detail with a strong focus on quality.
- Good planning, organising and leading skills.
- Good inter-personal skills.
- Encourages collaboration and delivering within the delivery processes
- Able to work effectively within a team
Benefits
Medical Aid
Pension Fund