Software Developer

Bring your skills as a Software Developer to Knysna and join a team that moves fast. This Western Cape role is one to watch.

About the Opportunity

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

Day-to-day, the role balances focused delivery with the kind of collaboration that keeps things moving. The successful candidate is trusted to make sensible decisions inside the agreed scope, with line-management support whenever a sounding board is useful.

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

Growing With Us

In addition, this role can grow with you. Strong performers in the it jobs team in Knysna have moved into senior, supervisory and specialist positions, and that journey is supported through coaching, training and exposure to bigger projects.

Growth conversations happen at a regular cadence — not just at year-end — so the path forward stays current and realistic for every Knysna team member.

Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.

Where You’ll Work

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.

Importantly, 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 Knysna site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.

Your Role

• Monitor system health using observability tools and respond to alerts
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents within agreed SLAs
• Implement security best practices in line with POPIA obligations
• Collaborate with product and design teams during sprint planning
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable releases
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades with minimal downtime
• Manage user access, identity and endpoint security across the estate
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripts and tooling

Candidate Profile

• Understanding of secure development principles aligned with POPIA
• 2-5 years’ commercial software development experience
• Experience with Git, branching strategies and pull-request workflows
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tooling
• Strong proficiency in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) is an advantage

If most of these boxes are ticked, you are encouraged to put your name forward.