Junior Software Engineer

About the position

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Software development of the telescope operational software. All stages of the full software development life cycle may be encountered: from requirements analysis, architectural input, software design and development, to testing, integration and deployment, as well as close interaction with hardware subsystems.
• Participate in deployment environments and processes, this may involve site visits to the Karoo.
• Participate in commissioning and lab integration of software and hardware.
• Participate in coding standard compliance and code reviews.
• Follow System Engineering principles for development of software.
• Produce documentation sets for the applicable subsystem as required.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

QUALIFICATION:

• Tech/ B.Sc (Comp Sci) with 3 years' working experience
• Eng. / B.Sc Hons (Comp Sci) with 3 years' working experience
• Eng / [URL Removed] (Comp Sci) with 2 years' working experience
• PhD / [URL Removed] only with 1 year working experience
• Engineering (with a software focus) or related field

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in programming languages (Python or C++ or Java).
• Experience in prototyping and development, including, testing, deployment, commissioning, release, and support of large-scale projects.
• Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies, and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Experience in the implementation of project management and system engineering principles

KNOWLEDGE:

• Modern software collaboration tools such as GitHub, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA.
• Python programming language

Desired Skills:

• Python
• C++
• Java