Software Developer at Kimberly Ryan

Job Summary

• Software developer with a passion for applying best practices and creating new solutions.
• Design, test and implement solutions in the emerging technologies space.
• You will be involved in liaising with the Business Analysts and Development Managers to ensure software projects meet requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop internet and distributed software solutions.
• Participate in solution workshops, write technical documentations and engage in continuous delivery and DevOps
• Directs technical aspects of operations related to client accounts or high severity issues
• Participates in the evolution of company level software best practices, standards, and policies
• Works closely with the Team Leader, Business Analyst and Product Owner for understanding the functional and system requirements 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 maintaining the systems/applications once they are up and running
• Produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source codes.
• Assists other software developers, analysts, and designers in conceptualising and developing new software programs and applications
• Ensures robust and sustainable enterprise social collaboration architecture for software development by monitoring matrices of the SOA, and fixing complaints/bugs logged by customers

Qualifications

• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related fields.
• 3-5years experience in Software Development with good understanding of distributed computing, PaaS, IaaS is required
• Good knowledge of programming languages. Technologies include Java, Kotlin, Javascript, python, 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.
• Good understanding of one or more relational database management system (MySQL, PotgreSQL, MSSQL Server, Oracle) and/or NoSQL database system.
• You must have contributed significantly to one or more solution in use by customers.
• 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.

Skills & Proficiences:

• In-depth knowledge of programming for diverse operating systems and platforms using development tools
• Excellent understanding of software design and programming principles.
• Candidate must know how to write unit tests
• A good understanding of build tools and continuous integration is an added advantage
• Good problem solving and logical thinking skills (ability to transform business requirements into programmable solutions).