Who We Are

Decode is a founder-led boutique software engineering agency founded in 2019 and based in Cape Town, South Africa. We collaborate with purpose-driven organisations globally to develop bespoke software products and systems that drive sustainable growth and impact.

The current team includes:

• Barry Dwyer
• Brett Ausmeier
• Dagmar Timler
• Jess Verheul
• Siyasanga Mtshokotsha
• Trevor Gowing

Why Work With Us

Join us to bring your skills and experience and help us face new challenges, define our culture, learn, and grow our business.

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from those typically under-represented in the technology industry.

What We Do

We are a team of passionate software developers that, together with our specialist partners, collaborate with our clients and their users to build high-quality web and mobile products using web technologies.

We offer our clients dedicated teams of software developers (3-5) to collaborate with them to build or extend their software products. Together with our build services, we offer support and maintenance of the products that we have built.

Our Development Processes

We believe in a collaborative development process where the team define, develop, review and test each other's tasks. We believe this, in combination with appropriate automated testing, produces the best quality code.

Outside of writing code, we believe that top-quality products are developed by teams that have responsibility from design to deployment and support. So our teams are responsible for the design & architecture, development & testing as well as the deployment & support of the products we develop.

Our Hiring Process

We will start with a video call, during which we will cover:

• Introductions.
• A discussion about your goals for the future and their alignment with ours.
• A dive into your work experience.
• A few questions about the web, your tech stack and support.
• A discussion about some scenarios from your experience.

After our conversation, if we are keen to move forward, we will move on to a collaborative technical challenge.

• We will start off with a planning and design discussion.
• Then you can go away and work on your solution. You are welcome to ask questions at any point.
• Then we will code review and test your solution and provide you with feedback.
• Lastly, we will have a review discussion.

Our intention of this process is to give you an idea of how we like to work on a day-to-day basis and give us an idea of how we work together.