Senior Software Engineer at Energy360 Africa

Job Description

• The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player.
• You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products.
• You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews
• Technical leadership for junior software engineers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 4+ years of relevant work experience
• Expertise in Object Oriented Design, Database Design, and XML Schema
• Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize work

Technical Requirements:

• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Mastery of the core features of at least one backend language: PHP, Java..
• Advanced understanding of at least one Web Framework: Vue.js for JavaScript, Laravel for PHP, SpringBoot for Java.
• Deep knowledge of the fundamental front-end languages/technologies i.e HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Deep knowledge of Vue.js as well as experience with responsive design interface development
• Extensive experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability performance, security requirements, and impact
• Deep understanding of fundamental database concepts - relational (MYSQL) database, ORMs/ODMs and Web storage API (frontend)
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Experience with code automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (ex. Jenkins)
• Experience working with Application Monitoring Tool (ex. Sentry)
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Comfort with at least one web server technology (i.e: Apache, Nginx)
• Comfort working within at least one cloud hosting platform (i.e: AWS)
• Working knowledge of tools and editors (ex: Grunt, Sublime, Atom, JSLint)
• Measured experience with unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, with at least one relevant testing framework
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working on hardware/IoT integration projects
• Working knowledge of software engineering version control systems and collaboration tools (Ex: Git)
• Experience working with hardware and embedded device SDKs (ex: POS)Familiarity with containerization infrastructure and orchestration.