Software Engineer Full Time

Our client is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join a specialist engineering team focused on developing and modernising software solutions for traffic monitoring and control systems. This opportunity is ideal for a developer who enjoys working with legacy applications while driving the migration to modern technologies and contributing across the full software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, maintain and enhance software components.
• Maintain and refactor an existing Delphi (Object Pascal) codebase while contributing to future migration initiatives.
• Develop clean, maintainable and well-documented code.
• Collaborate closely with embedded and hardware engineers to deliver integrated solutions.
• Participate in software architecture, system design and technical reviews.
• Develop and execute unit, integration and system testing.
• Assist with build pipelines, compiler toolchains and automated testing.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve software performance, maintainability and development processes.
• Support software deployment and ongoing product improvements.

Minimum Requirements
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years’ professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of Delphi (Object Pascal) or the ability to maintain existing Delphi applications.
• Experience with C and/or modern programming languages such as C++, Rust, Python or Go is advantageous.
• Understanding of object-oriented design principles.
• Experience with version control and software configuration management.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude is advantageous.
• Knowledge of RTOS, multithreading, Linux or scripting languages is beneficial.
• Valid South African driver’s licence.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Submit your CV to it.jobs@mspstaffing.co.za or call 021 555 0432.
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Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 4 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.