Work-Force
A Junior Developer is needed in Bethal. The role focuses on consistent delivery, accurate work and clear communication across the Mpumalanga operation.
The Role
This Junior Developer role sits within the it jobs function in Bethal. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across Mpumalanga.
The successful applicant is given the room to plan, deliver and review their work without unnecessary noise. The organisation has built its Bethal team on trust, and the Junior Developer role will feel that from week one.
Internal documentation, process notes and shared playbooks make it easier for the Junior Developer to step into the it jobs workflow quickly. Institutional knowledge is well-organised, so people are not reinventing the wheel from one week to the next.
Your Team
You will join a tight-knit, collaborative team that knows the it jobs side of the business inside out. The Bethal group is a healthy mix of experienced operators and newer joiners, all of whom share a strong commitment to delivery and to one another.
Equally, the team mix in Bethal reflects a balance of experienced operators and emerging talent, with deliberate space for diverse voices and backgrounds.
Line management is hands-on without being heavy. Expect regular one-to-ones, honest feedback and the support needed to do good work consistently.
Diversity and Inclusion
In addition, the organisation is committed to transformation and equal opportunity. Hiring is on merit, and applications are actively encouraged from women, youth, people with disabilities and other historically disadvantaged groups in line with the Employment Equity plan and B-BBEE objectives.
B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.
Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Mpumalanga.
Key Outputs
- Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and runbooks
- Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
- Optimise database queries and back-end performance hot-spots
- Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
- Write clean, testable code that follows the team’s coding standards
- Mentor junior engineers through pairing and structured feedback
Who We’re Looking For
- Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull-request workflows
- Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) is an advantage
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
- Good written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
- Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling
Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.