Work-Force
Step into a Senior Software Engineer role in Bloemfontein and make your mark across Free State. The team is hiring now and wants to hear from sharp, committed candidates.
The Role
This Senior Software Engineer role sits within the it jobs function in Bloemfontein. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across Free State.
Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Bloemfontein team.
Quality is everyone’s job. Whether the Senior Software Engineer is processing a transaction, supporting a colleague or handling a customer query, the standard expected in Free State is consistently high and consistently fair.
About Bloemfontein
The role is based in Bloemfontein, close to the Bloemfontein judicial hub. Public transport links and parking are within easy reach, making the daily commute manageable for candidates living across Bloemfontein and the broader Free State region.
Accessibility is taken seriously: where the role allows, the team works toward a balance of in-office presence and flexibility for candidates based in and around Bloemfontein.
If you are relocating, the team can share practical pointers on neighbourhoods, transport and the typical pace of life in Bloemfontein, Free State.
A Typical Day
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 Bloemfontein.
Crucially, the Bloemfontein 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
- Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
- Investigate and resolve user-reported support tickets at L2 and L3
- Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
- Implement security best practices in line with POPIA obligations
- Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts
- Write clean, testable code that follows the team’s coding standards
- Design, develop and maintain features across the application stack
Candidate Profile
- Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull-request workflows
- Good written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems
- Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
In addition, if most of these boxes are ticked, you are encouraged to put your name forward.