Overview:

Our client is a South African investment management and financial planning business, offering innovative tools to help investors reach their goals. The company has recently launched a new multi-manager brand and website, expanding its presence in the asset management space. Together with its analytics platform, the business is focused on developing digital applications that deliver powerful portfolio insights and reporting tools for advisers and clients.

This is an entry-level position. The successful candidate will play a hands-on role in building, enhancing, and maintaining the company's desktop, mobile and web apps.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, and deploy new features for the company's applications (desktop, mobile and web), ensuring high usability and performance

• Maintain and enhance existing codebases with clean, documented, testable and scalable solutions

• Maintain and implement new cloud (Azure) infrastructure.

• Collaborate in agile teams - participate in planning, daily stand-ups, sprint execution, and retrospectives

• Write unit and integration tests; ensure software quality, reliability, and responsiveness

• Assist in UI/UX improvements by translating business needs into functional app components

• Work with APIs and ensure seamless backend-server communication

• Address bug fixes, performance optimization, and rollout of incremental updates

• Contribute to troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and support post-deployment

• Document functionality clearly for future maintainability

• Stay updated with new technologies and apply continuous improvement to products

• Create, monitor and test backup infrastructure

• Learn Agentic Engineering using AI principles

Requirements:

• Matric with a passion for technology and software development

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science/relevant diploma, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field advantageous

• Completion of app development courses, internships, or relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, Git, mobile frameworks) - desirable

• Any software development experience an advantage