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.Net Developer


Job Location:

Cape Town - South Africa

Salary: Not provided by the employer
Experience Required: 5years
Posted: 3 September 2026 (8 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 1 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced .NET Developer to take ownership of a modern cloud-ready software platform that supports a nationally deployed mission-critical service.



Requirements
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Software Engineering or a related field (strong commercial portfolio may be considered in lieu of a degree)
  • Proficiency in (version 6 or later 8) essential
  • 5 or more years of commercial software development experience using C# and framework with a track record of delivering and maintaining production systems
  • Strong practical experience with Core and RESTful API design (APIs consumed by web mobile and third-party clients)
  • Solid experience with relational databases PostgreSQL and/or SQL Server including schema design query optimization and Entity Framework Core
  • Proficiency with Git-based version control (branching strategies pull requests) and CI/CD pipelines
  • Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum and experienced at onboarding to existing codebases through documentation code reading and structured handover
  • Advantageous: experience with cloud-hosted / cloud-native environments particularly AWS (EC2 RDS S3 or equivalent) is advantageous.
  • Proficiency with Git-based version control workflows including branching strategies pull request reviews and working within a CI/CD pipeline
  • Comfortable working within Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks and experienced in onboarding to existing codebases through documentation review code reading and structured handover processes


Required Technical Skills

  • Development
  • C#
  • 6 preferably 8
  • Core
  • RESTful API development


Databases

  • Strong relational database experience
  • PostgreSQL and/or SQL Server
  • Database/schema design
  • Query optimization
  • Entity Framework Core or similar ORM


Development Practices

  • Git-based version control
  • Branching strategies
  • Pull requests and code reviews
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Unit and integration testing


Ways of Working

  • Agile/Scrum experience
  • Experience working with existing production codebases
  • Strong code-reading and troubleshooting ability
  • Comfortable with structured knowledge transfer and technical handovers


Advantageous

  • AWS experience particularly:
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • S3
  • Other managed AWS services
  • Cloud-native application development
  • Experience supporting mission-critical or nationally deployed platforms
  • Experience taking ownership of an inherited/existing application
  • Technical leadership or mentoring experience



Required Skills:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience. Minimum 6 years backend engineering experience. Strong experience with C# / .NET Core or later. Proven experience building or integrating systems using APIs and asynchronous messaging. Working knowledge of cloud platforms preferably Microsoft Azure.


Required Education:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Technology Software Engineering or a related field.