Junior Developer

Role: Junior Developer. Location: Springbok, Northern Cape. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.

About the Opportunity

The Junior Developer vacancy forms part of how the Springbok branch keeps performing. It pairs day-to-day delivery with longer-running priorities that keep the it jobs side of the business moving forward.

In addition, the successful applicant is given the room to plan, deliver and review their work without unnecessary noise. The organisation has built its Springbok team on trust, and the Junior Developer role will feel that from week one.

Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the it jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Springbok much easier.

Where You’ll Work

Beyond that, the environment is hybrid-friendly where the role allows, with collaborative tooling, modern source-control workflows and a strong emphasis on shared ownership of code and incidents.

Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Springbok site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.

Crucially, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.

What Your Day Looks Like

Your day tends to start with a quick standup, where the team shares progress and surfaces blockers. From there, you settle into focused build time, breaking tickets into manageable chunks and pairing with colleagues when something gets thorny. Afternoons mix code reviews, planning discussions and the occasional production incident — everyone pulls together, fixes the issue and feeds the lessons back into the next sprint. By the time you sign off, you’ve shipped value, learned something new, and left clean code behind you.

No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Springbok.

On top of that, the Springbok office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable releases
• Manage user access, identity and endpoint security across the estate
• Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and structured feedback
• Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Design, develop and maintain features across the application stack
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs

Candidate Profile

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• 2-5 years’ commercial software development experience
• Reliable home internet for hybrid work where applicable
• Ability to mentor junior team members on best practices

Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.