Junior Developer

Applications are warmly invited for a Junior Developer role based in Mthatha. We welcome candidates from every background across Eastern Cape who are ready to grow with us.

About the Opportunity

This Junior Developer role has been briefed against a clear set of outcomes for Mthatha. The successful candidate will work alongside an established team and will be expected to contribute meaningfully to the it jobs pipeline across Eastern Cape.

Communication runs both ways. Managers across the it jobs team in Eastern Cape make time for one-to-ones, and people are expected to speak up early when something needs attention.

Quality is everyone’s job. Whether the Junior Developer is processing a transaction, supporting a colleague or handling a customer query, the standard expected in Eastern Cape is consistently high and consistently fair.

Equal Opportunity

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.

Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Eastern Cape.

Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Mthatha.

Where You’ll Work

Practically speaking, 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.

Beyond that, 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.

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

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.

On top of that, the Mthatha 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.

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

Daily Duties

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical design discussions
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts
• Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
• Investigate and resolve user-reported support tickets at L2 and L3
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and runbooks
• Write clean, testable code that follows the team’s coding standards

Candidate Profile

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Strong proficiency in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
• 2-5 years’ commercial software development experience
• Reliable home internet for hybrid work where applicable

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