Senior Software Developer

We’re looking for a passionate, experienced Senior Software Developer to bring their mad skills into our Mr Price technology family!

This role falls into our Retail project team and consists of an amazing group of individuals that come with a wealth of experience. They are focused on developing and improving our internal retail and merchandising systems, that will take The Mr Price Group into the future.

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in the below:

  • C# and .net
  • SQL
  • WS02 – Enterprise Integration
  • Web service development
  • REACT and/or Angular frameworks
  • Azure based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Azure SQL)
  • GitLab
  • Java and Oracle Databases (Advantageous)
  • Release management
  • Strong documentation skills
  • Being able to work with all levels of the project teams (Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Team Leaders, 3rd party technical vendors etc)
  • Working with Waterfall/Agile methodologies for project delivery

A day in your life:

  • Estimating development timelines
  • Solving technical problems and enhancements by working with customers and team.
  • Working under pressure to resolve issues within production within SLA.
  • Project based work
  • Mentoring developers is key within this role.
  • Creating a Technical Functional Specification and writing code
  • Develop, enhance and maintain applications that conform to user requirements and specified architectural design with little supervision in well designed and efficient code
  • Elements of change control
  • Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes
  • Finding ways to integrate new technologies with existing legacy applications and systems
  • Release process management
  • Use development frameworks, methodologies, and procedures to facilitate application design and delivery according to technical specifications
  • Conduct necessary testing (Stress, Integration and Unit)
  • Conduct post implementation monitoring
  • Complete and maintain relevant documentation and version control disciplines to maintain source code
Mr Price Group Limited is an omni-channel, fashion value retailer. The Group retails Apparel, Homeware and Sportsware and is one of the fastest growing retailers in South Africa. We love where we work, and we think you will, too. We're on a mission. A mission to be the best. We pride ourselves on our fast-moving, fast-working and collaborative culture. Our people are our success, and that's why we love people with a point of view. We hire for attitude and train for skill - so, what does that mean for you? It means that if you're passionate and you have a great attitude, then you're one step closer to joining our family. We're a company made up of free-thinkers, doers, makers, creators, crafters, art lovers, tech heads, planners, disruptors, wordsmiths, number crunchers, pun enthusiasts, engineers, left and right-brainers, award winners ... you get the picture. We take our work seriously. But ourselves? Not so much.