Graduate Software Developer Job

Date: Sep 4, 2013

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

Description:

Graduate Software Developer

Location: South Africa-Western Cape-Cape Town
Organization: Fundamo
Job: Product Development/Management
Job Number :132533

Description

About Fundamo, a Visa Company

Fundamo, a Visa Company, is a global specialist provider of enterprise mobile financial services software. Fundamo believes mobile financial services are an agent of fundamental social and economic change, and has been visionary in predicting the trend towards providing financial services over mobile phones and the impact this will have on the delivery of financial services in both developing and developed markets. Fundamo directly supports Visa's strategy to provide the next generation of payments solutions, enabling consumers to transact wherever and whenever they choose, using a card, a computer or a mobile device with Visa's reliability, security and global acceptance.

As a leader in the mobile money space for over 10 years we pride ourselves in finding the best to work in our teams. The Fundamo team in Cape Town is a centre of excellence for Mobile Money implementations. At Fundamo we are a company of practitioners who embrace and live integrity, innovation, clients, collaboration and excellence in everything we do every day. At Fundamo we live what we love.

About the role
We are looking for young, dynamic, very bright, innovative and team orientated developers who are looking for the best opportunity in Cape Town to develop their Java skills, with the opportunity to improve the lives of millions of under banked people across the world.

This is a very exciting and collaborative role that requires you to work as part of a dynamic team, with Product Owners, Software Architects, Software Testers, Technical Writers, UI Designers and other Software Developers contributing directly to ensure that product designs are developed, validated and executed.

Responsibilities:
- Work as an integral part of a cross functional development team
- Perform detailed design of the product and architecture components, and validate the design with stakeholders
- Build and test product software components to meet product requirements
- Follow good security coding practices to ensure the application is free of most common coding vulnerabilities
- Fix any defects and performance problems discovered in testing
- Participate in code reviews, and other techniques to improve code quality
- Build and assist with ensuring automated builds and continuous integration are working at all time
- Build product migration approaches, scripts and functions
- Play an active role in the team’s scrum responsibilities.

About the team
Each Scrum team consists of a variety of roles such as:
- scrum master – the glue
- product owner – the business
- software architect – the technical genius
- developers - the creative
- Testers – the safety net!

Why should you apply?
- This is an opportunity to join a world class team that is at the forefront of creating the next major mobile technology platform and you will help create a system that will set the pattern for a generation to come.
- Fundamo is a wholly owned subsidiary of Visa, a fortune 500 company, which offers a demanding, exciting and rewarding experience; with opportunities to work with some of the world’s best technical talent on exciting projects at global level.
- This is a high growth environment where priorities shift fast and will provide you with the opportunity to be part of a team that is shaping the future of mobile technology through innovative products that are taking the world by storm.
- You will enjoy working in a fast paced Agile environment using the Scrum methodology and gain exposure to cutting edge technology within a global giant.
- Fundamo is an employer of choice and is the centre of excellence for mobile money implementations (51 implementations in 32 countries since 2002)

So, what skills and/or knowledge & experience would you be expected to have?
- Good understanding of source control, versioning, branching, merging etc
- Good understanding of continuous integration, automated deployment, installation and data migration
- Good understanding of Test Driven Development, and tools to assist with unit and automated testing
- Good understanding of Coding standards, code metrics and tools to assist with development
- Understanding of how to work in an incremental fashion, and refactor design as requirements evolve
- A passion for quality and perfection
- A passion for agile software development
- Exposure to mobile applications, banking or transaction processing systems (but not essential)
- Scrum (but not essential)
- High quality, clever ‘pet projects’ and an interest in development tooling and efficiency would impress.

*Please ensure that your Degree transcripts, Matric results and copy of ID are attached to your application.

Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

Qualifications

What about qualifications?
- B-Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent technology diploma
- A formal Sun Java certification will be an advantage

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