Senior Developer

.......... • Other • Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa • $300 - $400 / year • 2h ago

About our company
Work is play. We make games, and we’re passionate about it. We’re a dev house which specializes in advanced, cutting-edge online fun, a sentiment that is echoed in our environment and company culture. At Raging River’s core is a lattice of skilled and passionate game developers who can tackle the surge of projects and ideas that flow in and out of our doors. The entertainment we provide is on a global scale, necessitating the latest technologies and international standards. What we’re like: The code is with us . With each new day comes an opportunity to expand on the knowledge of our craft: staying with the current and keeping on-trend is second nature to our developers and creatives. We’re ever-curious creatures who dive deep to get the best results, relishing the chance to try out new and exciting things. What makes you a big fish? A Raging River big fish wants to swim upstream more than anything. We’re looking for bright people with a consistent and urgent passion for their craft. We believe wholeheartedly that work is play with the right mindset and joy for the job. Also, making online games for a living is pretty cool.

What you’ll be working on

Build features, with unit tests that can support our large and growing user base.
Whiteboard new features and fixes — and bring it to life.
Collaborate with peers to write, review, or provide feedback on a technical design proposal.
Help our skilled support team triage and solve bugs.
Contribute to internal tools that help us improve our development process, manage our users, and scale our systems.
Participate in your team’s morning standup meeting.

Coding responsibilities

Produce clean maintainable and scalable code.
Modify/Update code.
Develop prototypes.
Ensure that your code has unit tests.
Maintain well-structured Solutions in Source Control.
Ensure that major updates to a solution are branched.
Follow established application design standards, policies, and procedures.
Ensure all new development/updates/changes go through an appropriate testing process.
Ensure all code deployed to QA is working and self-tested before handed over to QA.
Ensure adequate handover to QA is done (verbal is not adequate).
Perform application development/programming analysis duties.
Install, research, test, and verify proper functioning of software updates.
Follow established database standards and procedures if applicable.
Ensure that the dev and staging environments are in a well-managed and maintained state.
Provide input into the design of software systems, offering advice and thoughts and providing feedback.
To provide support for a system including analysis, tracking and resolution.
To utilize approved technologies for the development of systems, or introduce new technologies based on research you have performed.
Take part in the work planning and tracking process.
Effectively communicate impediments early enough in a project or sprint task therefore mitigating late delivery.
Fix known bugs that are running in production.
Proactively keep abreast of industry developments, skills, and technologies and share information, ideas, and best practices with other team members and divisions to improve skills.
Definition of Done: Work delivered, tested, UAT performed and running in production.
Consult with product manager to ensure understanding of brief/product requirements.
Develop end-to-end solutions.
Solve complex technical problems.
Develop and mentor other developers.
Have extensive knowledge of the adopted frameworks and technologies.
Deliver at a high velocity.
Provide team members with technical consultancy and code reviews.
Ensure all applications have sufficient logging and monitoring.
Ensure high uptime and low production issues on software.
Set up and configure CI/CD pipelines.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

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