# Senior Software Engineer

Paracon Duties & Responsibilities Role: Senior Software Engineer / Senior .NET Developer (Contract) Location: Cape Town, hybrid; preference for candidates based in Cape Town Contract: Initial 12 months Experience: 8-10 years software development; at least 5 years hands-on with Microsoft .NET Environment: Enterprise information security platform and related security initiatives Role in plain language: This senior contract role will build and support secure business applications and APIs for an enterprise information security programme. The developer will enhance an existing self-service platform, connect it with other systems, resolve production issues and help improve its reliability. They will work with analysts, security specialists, project managers and other developers. The strongest candidates combine deep C# and .NET delivery with practical web application, API and SQL Server experience. They should be comfortable working in a regulated enterprise setting and contributing to technical design as well as hands-on development. Candidate: You would join a 12-month Cape Town hybrid contract focused on developing and improving an enterprise information security platfor

- **Id**: 3852507
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/paracon-gauteng-senior-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T09:01:04Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T09:01:04Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2167
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4510139
- **Name**: Paracon - Gauteng
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/paracon-gauteng>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **ASP.NET Core** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **Entity Framework Core** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T04:00:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:2, agency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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