Senior Software Engineer at SW Global

Code: SE 0041

Job Summary

• To develop high quality reusable software component, for business to business integration, using international best practices and new best-in-class technologies, concepts and philosophy.
• You will assist the Head of developer to manage software programs and applications that drive SW Global’s, strategy, product owners and third-party business.
• Hands-on both front-end and back-end development to be able to divide up logic across the full system, implement the plan, and build the whole thing.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers on building software products
• Work with the project team to understand product requirements, Design the product architecture, interfaces and plan customer integration
• Develop internet and distributed software solutions, directs technical aspects of operations related to client accounts or high severity issues
• Ensures robust and sustainable enterprise social collaboration architecture for software development by monitoring matrices of the SOA, and fixing complaints/bugs logged by customers Participate in solution workshops, write technical documentation and engage in continuous delivery and DevOps
• Participates in the evolution of company level software best practices, standards, and policies
• Works closely with other developers and BA team to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
• Collaborates with product owners, technical architects and other software developers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and mobile-based applications and periodically develops enhancements for existing systems
• Liaises with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems
• Manages and/or provides guidance to junior software developers and research assistants.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related fields with 5-7 years of experience in Software Development or an equivalent of education and experience
• Strong understanding of distributed computing, SaaS, PaaS, laaS is required.
• Passionate for software engineering. The job involves significant investment in research and development.
• An open mindset i.e. a desire to learn and to impact your colleagues and the rest of the world.
• Good understand of developing and running micro-services is a plus.
• Experience in enterprise software development. Certified by at least one of the industry standard certifications.
• Good knowledge of one or more programming languages. Technologies include Java (Frameworks: Spring, Java EE), Kotlin, JavaScript (Framework: Angular, Jquery), python (Framework: Django, Flask), HTML/CSS. Git Versioning tool
• Experience with functional programming languages is an added advantage. We will consider a candidate who can demonstrate a good understanding of other object-oriented languages,
• Experience with web frameworks including PHP Yii/Symfony is an added advantage.
• A very good understanding of one or more relational database management system (MySQL, PotgreSQL, MSSQL Server, Oracle) and/or NoSQLdatabase system.
• Knowledge of and skills to work effectively within an Agile Software development environment (Scrum),
• Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and/or other automated testing skills,
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English

Skills & Proficiencies:

• A good knowledge of developing enterprise solutions on the JVM is preferred.
• Candidate must have a working knowledge of source control tools i.e. git, mercurial, svn.
• Candidate must know how to write unit tests
• A good understanding of build tools and continuous integration is an added advantage
• Candidates should have a good understanding of private cloud infrastructures, preferably Google Cloud Platform, AWS or MicrosoftAzuro
• An understanding of cloud technologies including container technologies is an added advantage
• A working knowledge of Linux.