Job Description

As a Developer at Sage, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality products, systems, or services that surpass customer and business partner expectations. You will also proactively share expertise on technical solutions and business processes within your area of responsibility.




You'll be joining a team of highly capable engineers who really care about what they do and thrive on collaboration and working as an Agile team to achieve amazing solutions to everyday business needs.




Please note that this is a hybrid role, requiring you to work onsite at our Johannesburg office three days per week.

Key Responsibilities

Successfully develop, deliver, and maintain high-quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.).


- Collaborate with Solution Designers early in the process to ensure the product is flexible, scalable, and resilient.


- Collaborate across teams, including product management, QA/XD, various product lines, and business units, to drive results.


- Identify and resolve performance issues to ensure optimal application efficiency and scalability.




Our Windows desktop development stack includes:


VB6


Pervasive


Delphi


NET Framework: C#, WPF, Prism, NUnit, etc


MFC


SQL




Key Responsibilities




- Successfully develop, deliver, and maintain high-quality desktop software (requirements, design, code, documentation, etc.).


- Collaborate with Solution Designers early in the process to ensure the product is flexible, scalable, and resilient.


- Collaborate across teams, including product management, QA/XD, various product lines, and business units, to drive results.


- Identify and resolve performance issues to ensure optimal application efficiency and scalability.




Essential requirements:


- Strong experience with VB6, Pervasive and Btrieve


- Experience with ISAM database design and architecture


- Proficient with Microsoft Windows desktop application development


- Strong experience with .NET Framework; C#, WPF, Prism, NUnit


- Experience with Delphi, MS SQL


- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and/or extreme programming methodologies




Preferred:




- Some knowledge of accounting software (preferred but not essential)


- Familiar with common UI design patterns like MVVM, MVC and MVP


- Familiar with Web Services and Rest APIs


- Familiar with GIT, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins and AWS technologies


- Familiar with Unit Testing / MOCK frameworks


- Interested in writing high quality, robust code involving approaches such as unit testing, code coverage and static code analysis.


- Naturally curious, thrives on learning new technologies and bringing new ideas into the teams to explore


- Relishes solving problems through creative engineering



Function

Product Delivery


Country

South Africa


Office Location

Johannesburg


Work Place type

Hybrid


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