Vacancy title:
Software and Coding Expert

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Information Technology , Category: Computer & IT ] 

Jobs at:

Big Sized International Company

Deadline of this Job:
4th July 2019

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Kampala , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, June 27, 2019 , Base Salary: UGX 5,000,000

JOB DETAILS: 
Overview
The job entails developing and maintaining the company’s application’s backend architecture; ensuring that it meets globally accepted standards and provides for different integrations with other solutions..

Responsibilities & duties
• Develop the company’s platform (java based) in accordance with business requirements
• Align with the product management team about features and priorities

• Take ownership of one or more modules in the company’s architecture;
o Biometric authentication server
o Customize transactional backend (open source, java)
o Development and implementation of an ETL tool and analytics framework (with some R/python)
• Participate in the full project life cycle from design to go-live and support
• Improve automated testing procedures
• Optimize code after deployment
• Write documentation for the platform and APIs
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
Key Performance Indicators
• Number of bugs in released software
• Turnaround time to develop solutions
• Code readability• Application security, i.e. storage and transport layer encryption, SSL

Personality
• Fast thinker/solution oriented
• Ability to work with remote teams
• Self-motivated
• Strong analytical skills & structured approach to work
• Willingness to work long or irregular hours

Academic/Skills
• Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well
• Fluency in English

Job Education Requirements: Computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field

Work experience
• 5 – 10 years working experience in developing software and coding
• Experience in developing financial software solutions
• Experience with several of the following tools/technologies:
➢ JEE and Core Java,
➢ REST services and APIs
➢ Both relational and non-relational database technologies
➢ AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, RDS)
➢ Netbeans/Postman
➢ GitHub/BitBucket/JiraWorking
• Knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
• Experience in an agile work environment, i.e. source code and build management, testing, continuous integration
• System Performance Optimization
• Application security, i.e. storage and transport layer encryption, SSL
Work hand in hand with
• Business Analyst
• Android Developer
• Web Developer
• UI/UX DesignerJob application procedure
If you believe you have the requirements of the job, send your application to:
backend-developer@greatugandajobs.com