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EQPlus

Software Development Lead

EQPlus

  • R Undisclosed
  • Contract Specialist position
  • Cape Town Region
  • Posted 09 Oct 2025 by EQPlus
  • Expires in 33 days
  • Job 2624392
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About the position

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Development Lead to oversee a small development team and modernise legacy systems into scalable, efficient solutions. This is a 12-month contract role with opportunities to contribute to high-impact projects and drive technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and supervise a small development team, fostering growth and technical competence
  • Analyse, interpret, and modernise legacy systems to produce improved solutions
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define system requirements and ensure delivery meets business objectives
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members on architecture and development best practices
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle: design, development, testing, and deployment
  • Maintain and enhance existing applications, ensuring system performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Apply cloud technologies and DevOps practices for continuous integration and deployment

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

  • Proven experience leading small development teams
  • Strong understanding of legacy system architecture and modernisation strategies
  • Hands-on expertise with Blazor (ASP.NET Core)
  • Experience with AWS and Azure DevOps
  • Solid grasp of software development best practices, including version control, CI/CD, and testing
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills
  • Proven experience in leading software engineering teams
  • Relevant qualifications and certifications in software engineering, cloud technologies (AWS/Azure), etc.

Desired Skills:

  • Blazor
  • ASP.NET Core
  • AWS
  • Azure DevOps
  • Legacy System Modernization
  • Development Lead
  • Software Development Lead

Desired Work Experience:

  • More than 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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EQPlus

About the agency

EQPlus is a Specialist IT & Financial Recruitment Consultancy with a team of highly experienced staff and shareholders, representative of South Africa's unique diversity. EQPlus is a Specialist Resourcing Services organization, specialising in the provision of contracting staff, permanent staff as well as Executive Search. We do IT your way. EQPlus is a leading provider of IT and Financial talent, on all levels of your business Founded in 1999, the dynamic team at EQPlus focusses on the following business units: EQ Resourcing EQPlus is able to supply top quality technical specialists in all technologies e.g. Mobile Technologies, Java, C#, SQL, Oracle, COBOL, Natural – all levels. EQ PLUS ensures that the candidate match the client’s skills requirement and the culture of the organisation. EQ Plus provides a personal service of exceptional value. EQ Professional Services EQPlus is highly experienced in the sourcing of Programme and Project Managers for short and long term positions, both local and internationally. Business Analysts/Business Process skills are also available with experience across multiple leading BA methodologies. EQ Staffing Solutions EQ Staffing solutions is designed to meet your needs, be it Teams, Fixed price or Executive search. Our offering includes bespoke application development skills across all the enterprise development platforms and technologies over the full lifecycle of a project. Why EQPLUS We have a track record of excellent service delivery on small and large scale recruitment projects. •Our team of inspirational bright minds enables us to provide business leadership in our field. •We provide Technology Expertise, using state of the art Recruitment Intellectual Property •We consistently provide quality candidates, at great value for money with passionate service delivery. •We serve clients and candidates spanning the technology and geographic landscape of South Africa. •We are a Total Talent Solution Centre of Excellence and have specialists that focus on the IT Industry. •We provide Executive Search appointments, Independent Contractors and Permanent Appointments including: oArchitects, oBusiness Analysts, oProject Managers, oAnalyst Programmers (Java, C#, PHP, Web Logic, SQL, Cobol, Universe, SAP, Oracle etc.) oNetwork Engineers (up to CCIE level). oMicrosoft Technology experts, oJava Application Development experts and oMobile Development experts. oFinancial Industry Professionals.

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