Junior Platform Developer at Zola Electric

Job Description

• The Junior Platform Developer will be part of the team responsible for building and designing Surge, a suite of Ruby applications that underlie Zola’s Web, mobile, tablet and SMS user interfaces and ensure effective deployment to the cloud in a Docker-based continuous deployment cycle.
• The Junior Platform Engineer collaborates with Data practice to incorporate its data into the business logic and user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build the system by writing the code for application programming interfaces and develop the infrastructure system robust enough to handle stability issues
• Liaise with Project Managers and stakeholders to define business rules and features / priorities in terms of updating software and the impact on the business
• Monitor the system to ensure issues are detected quickly and resolved timeously
• Monitor connection to 3rd party integrations (e.g. NetSuite and payment providers), identify and resolve connection failures
• Change user interfaces and develop features for specific roles to improve metrics for the business (i.e. modify user interface) and change systems to reduce costs
• Liaise with hardware team to provide technical support on features and build software to ensure firmware talks to the services directly
• Monitor data usage and hardware specific APIs performance and stability
• Drive features back for service and sales by analysing the data and work with Project Managers and stakeholders to turn data in value
• Build a new service to evolve OGE APIs from single system to multi-API systems
• Identify technological simplifications to support cost reductions and friction of 3rd party integration through documentation availability that is dynamic
• Develop algorithms that directly contribute to the value of the company
• Mentor and coach junior developers in writing codes for application programme interfaces
• Check code quality for junior developers
• Carry out code reviews of fellow developers before coming into the system
• Participate in Pair Programming during onboarding to assist new developers in writing of codes
• Participate in internal knowledge sharing forums to share knowledge and expertise with the team

Requirements

• B.Sc / M.Sc in Computer Science, IT Systems or related field
• Experience with Test Driven Development
• Experience in Background Jobs and cacheing
• 5+years with web backends
• 2+ years’ experience in Ruby platform development
• 7+ years’ experience with web backends
• Experience with TDD, Microservices and Performance Optimizations
• Experience in production debugging
• Experience with DevOps, AWS, DI systems, and / or Domain Knowledge.