Senior Software Developer at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has a vacancy for a Senior Software Developer in the Enterprise Enablement impact area within the Next Generation Enterprises and Institutions Cluster. The incumbent will be responsible to develop and maintain components of the real-time media-streaming platform. This position is based in Pretoria.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in conceptualising, designing and developing cross-platform integration between multimedia web servers and web-based monitoring systems;
• Working in a team with other developers and researchers to develop and maintain components of a distributed, real-time media streaming platform;
• Assist the systems architect and team developers with high-level system design and integration and contribute to development activities that translate that design into working systems;
• Interpret customer requirements and develop appropriate software interfaces to the multimedia platform to satisfy these requirements;
• Contribute to the technology know-how of the group and create commercial-grade software for both in-house and open source projects;
• Apply good software design principles and practices to write clean, maintainable, production quality code;
• Contribute to improving the quality of the code-base by writing unit and integration tests;
• Contribute to developing, maintaining and evolving build and deployment processes.

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Qualifications, Skills And Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, computer science or information technology with at least five years’ experience in software development and engineering for commercial-grade Java or C++ application;
• A full appreciation of the entire software development cycle;
• Must have strong understanding of object-oriented design and development in Java or C++: expert knowledge in one of the two languages, and a working knowledge in the other;

• A deep knowledge of the following is required:
  • Software development and engineering;
  • Web application architectures;
  • Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) (CDI, JPA, JSF);
  • JBOSS/WildFly;
  • mySQL database;
  • Using the STL and common c++ idioms and patterns;
  • C++ templates and current C++ standards;
• Furthermore, experience with the following would be advantageous:
  • C++ libraries such as boost, QT;
  • Developing cross-platform (Windows and Linux) C++ applications advantageous;
  • Familiarity with plug-in architectures, real-time network protocols (RTP/RTCP, RTSP/SIP/SDP), other Internet network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP) will be an advantage;
  • gRPC and protocol buffers.
• Well versed in multi-threading techniques, real-time design and the software patterns approach to programming;
• Sufficient skill in the programming language such that they are familiar with using it as a tool for problem solving;