Senior Software Developer

A rapidly growing technology business is transforming how clean energy solutions are designed, delivered, and managed across South Africa. By combining intelligent software platforms with renewable energy systems, the company enables smarter, more efficient, and more accessible solar energy at scale.

They are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to play a critical role in building and evolving high-performance digital platforms. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, cloud-native systems that directly support sustainability and real-world impact.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Designing, developing, and scaling backend services using C# and .NET
• Building modern, API-first platforms and event-driven systems
• Developing rich, responsive front-end applications using TypeScript and React/Next.js
• Contributing to cloud architecture and infrastructure on AWS
• Supporting CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and DevOps best practices
• Ensuring performance, security, reliability, and maintainability across systems

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years’ experience in professional software development
• Strong expertise in C#/.NET, including ASP.NET Core Web APIs and EF Core
• Experience with messaging, queues, topics, and asynchronous architectures
• Solid database experience with PostgreSQL and SQL Server, including scaling strategies
• API-first development using OpenAPI/Swagger and standard versioning approaches
• Front-end experience with TypeScript and modern React or Next.js frameworks
• Focus on UI performance, accessibility, and responsive design
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (Lambda, EC2, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB)
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform or CDK)
• Experience implementing secure authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT, Cognito)
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and observability tools
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based DevOps practices
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments

Reference Number for this position is PM60981 which is a permanent position based in Rosebank offering a cost to company salary of up to R1M per annum depending on experience and ability. Contact Phindi on az.oc.egrem-e@melidnihp or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 06 Feb 10:25, Closing date 7 Apr