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Intermediate Software Development Engineer (DBN)

Intermediate Software Development Engineer (DBN)

BETSoftwareDurban, ZA
30+ days ago
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Job title : Intermediate Software Development Engineer (DBN)

Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal, Durban

Deadline : February 26, 2026

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Job Description

We Want You :

  • Ignite your coding journey with BET Software.
  • We’re on the lookout for an Intermediate Software Development Engineer to bring their expertise to our IT and Software Development team in Durban.
  • In this role, you’ll be responsible for coding and implementing smart software solutions, tackling problems with creativity, and collaborating across teams.
  • Your days will involve maintaining and improving software, documenting processes, and communicating clearly — all while mentoring juniors and staying ahead of evolving tech.
  • We’re looking for someone with a strong grasp of development principles, programming languages, frameworks, and tools, who’s passionate about building scalable, secure, high-performance solutions.
  • If you’re ready to grow and make your mark, apply today.

    • You Bring :

  • At least 3-5 years’ experience within a development environment (advantageous).
  • 2 - 5 years database experience.
  • 3 -5 years server / client- side languages (advantageous).
  • Experience in C# and SQL language (non-negotiable).
  • Good written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong attention to detail.

    • A Bonus to Have :

  • React and Kafka exposure.

    • What You’ll Do : Technical Outputs :

    Perform Planning

  • Identify and establish objectives for self and team.
  • Work on objectives or goals within timeline.
  • Consider all reasonable factors, impediments and obstacles.
  • Identify potential alternative strategies and refactor approach for maximum benefit within the shortest possible time.

    • Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Functionally Complete

  • Deliver a solution which covers all the agreed specified tasks and user objectives.
  • Deliver a correct solution which provides the correct results with the needed degree of precision.
  • Ensure checked in code is reviewed to ensure standards are met.

    • Implementation – Ensure the Solution is Reliable

  • Ensure the solution performs appropriately under agreed conditions for extended periods of time without the need for intervention (despite potential attacks).
  • Ensure all steps are taken to reduce the occurrence of faults due to misunderstood requirements, design errors, and implementation errors.
  • Ensure the solution is robust and remains continually available.
  • Respond to outages and failures when and where needed.
  • Improve fault tolerance even when operational conditions are not optimal.
  • Ensure complete data recoverability so that data may be recovered, and the desired state of the solution can be re-established (despite potential attacks).
  • Ensure the solution is maintainable, and actively seek methods to reduce down-time.
  • Ensure the solution is durable so that as user volumes and requirements change the solution can evolve over the long term.
  • Ensure the solution simplifies support and maintenance support through traceability, and effective error messaging.
  • Ensure over time, the solution becomes more mature where the interval between the interventions to remain operational become less frequent.
  • Ensure in the event of a failure reduce effective downtime is to the minimum possible.

    • Implementation – Ensure the Solution has Effective Security

  • Ensure the solution is secure, and confidential by protecting all information and data (also data transmission).
  • Ensure persons or other solutions have the degree of access appropriate to their level of authorisation and types.
  • Ensure the solution has high integrity where the solution prevents unauthorised access to, modification of computer programs, data, or settings.
  • Ensure the solution has a high degree of survivability despite third-party interventions (attacks, human errors, hardware or software faults).
  • Employ logs and records so that actions and events can be proven to have taken place and cannot be disputed / repudiated later.
  • Ensure wherever possible actions can be traced uniquely to the entity which performed it.
  • Ensure wherever possible the identify of an entity can be proved to be the correct one.

    • Implementation - Ensure the Solution is Maintainable

  • Ensure the solution and its relevant code base supports ease of modification for future maintainers.
  • Ensure the use of appropriate standards and methods.
  • Ensure where possible (without affecting performance / security) the solution caters for maintenance by support teams rather than developers.
  • Ensure modularity where the solution consists of discrete components so that a change in one component has minimal impact on other components.
  • Ensure relevant documentation is provided to support teams to reduce development support burden.
  • Apply a strategy of reusability so an asset can be used in more than one solution or in building other assets.
  • Where possible provide a mechanism for the solution to analyse its own faults and provide reports prior to a critical failure.
  • Develop the solution in a manner which supports modification for future developers thereby reducing the numbers of defects or negatively affecting system quality.

    • Verify Deployed Solutions

  • Ensure the solution is delivered completely and with the additional assets which are required to make installation / deployment as seamless and easy as possible.
  • Ensure the adaptable solution delivered is appropriate for different or evolving, software or other operational usage environments.

    • Respond to Outages & Failures

  • Provide proactive support to Peers, Testing, Dev Support and Operational teams so number of escalations to the development team is reduced, thereby maximising development time.
  • Provide support to the Dev Support during operational events and create or assist with the
  • creation of SOP’s.
  • Be available to handle emergency outages and failures for your or your teams’ solutions.
  • Perform trouble shooting and effectively resolve issues to increase solution stability and reduce intervention required over time.
  • Recommend and execute approved improvements to development methods and solutions.
  • Provide quick resolutions to app / system issues, driving stability, efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Maintain solutions which have completed development and are in the operations phase.
  • Develop and maintain technical support documentation.
  • Assess risk and impact of production issues / changes and take appropriate steps to mitigate risk.

    • Direct 3rd Party Development Partners

  • When required supply appropriate information, domain knowledge and access to partners.
  • Provide timely, relevant and constructive feedback to assist the partner to achieve success.
  • Take corrective action when deviation from the plan is observed.
  • Take all appropriate steps to ensure organisational success.

    • Behavioural Outputs :

    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 organisation 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.

    • 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.

    • Living the Spirit :

  • Engages in cross-functional collaboration and problem solving while encourages a culture of inclusivity.
  • Actively drives a culture of versatility and adaptability by modelling and encouraging team members to support each other not only within the department, but within BET Software as a whole.
  • Shows up in an authentic manner and leverages off the team’s diversity to achieve deliverables.
  • Views challenges as opportunities to expand on their knowledge base as well as encourages junior team members to do the same, and takes a creative approach to overcoming the challenges.

    • Closing Date : 04 July 2025

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