Senior Developer at Konga Online Shopping Limited

Job Category: Management Level
Reports to: Head of Engineering

Role Summary

• Senior developer will be responsible for the development and maintenance of applications with focus on definition and maintenance of the central database, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Role Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developer with server side logic
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies

Performance Goals/Indicators:

• Velocity.
• Sprint burndown.
• Code coverage by automated tests.
• Test automation against manual testing.

Compulsory Qualifications/Requirements

• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Hands on experience with programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP and Python
• Working knowledge of CMS framework
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• Good understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors such as LESS and SASS
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Setup and administration of backups
• Outputting data in different formats
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles
• Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• B.Sc Degree in Computer Science or relevant field