# Senior Software Developer

Introduction Our client, a leader in the Technology Industry is looking for a Senior Software Developer who will bring more than technical expertise to the table—someone who takes ownership, challenges the status quo, and turns complex challenges into smarter, more efficient solutions. In this role, you’ll combine technical excellence with business thinking, ensuring that every solution delivers measurable value. You’ll play a key role in improving system performance, driving efficiency, and continuously enhancing our products to meet evolving business and customer needs. Duties & Responsibilities Identify and drive optimisation opportunities across the product. You are not just maintaining systems, you are actively making them faster, more efficient, and more valuable to the business. Work in a Kanban environment on a mix of new product features and improvements to existing systems, always asking how each piece of work moves the needle for the business. Lead the design and delivery of software across the full product, from requirements through to handoff to DevOps for deployment. Write and own your tests. Quality starts with you, and you will work with the QA team to mak

- **Id**: 3787291
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/optim-g-senior-software-developer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T08:21:27Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-29T08:21:27Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2921
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4497696
- **Name**: Optim-G
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/optim-g-pty-ltd-ta-optim-g>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 70000
- **Max**: 110000
- **Currency**: ZAR
- **Period**: month
- **Gross**: yes
- **Usd annual**: 80280

## Technologies

- **Kanban** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Loki** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T03:57:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:7, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 80280
- **Is top pay**: no

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