Application Developer at Workforce Group

Department: I.T Department

Reporting to: Line Supervisor

Remuneration: Attractive Basic pay

Job Summary: The Application Developer will be responsible for developing, testing, installing and monitoring software applications, in order to ensure that the software performance meets company and user’s requirements.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Creating, maintaining and implementing the source code that makes up the application or program. Also responsible for designing the prototype application, indicating program unit structure, and coordinating application plans with other members of the development team or customer.
• Responsible for designing, developing, delivering, and improving in-house software applications on a variety of platforms and systems.
• Maintaining systems by monitoring and correcting software defects.
• Working closely with other staff on the maintenance and performance of software systems and asking questions to obtain information, clarify details and implement information.
• Finding and fixing faults in applications.
• Solving application problems in a timely manner.
• Ensuring proper version control and documentation of development activity.
• Developing user guides and providing varying degrees of software support.
• Making sure that applications can be run on existing and new hardware.
• Creating applications tailored to business needs to run on platforms/hardware.
• Delivering technical presentations/demonstrations of work.
• Researching, identifying and recommending new applications that would improve company operations.
• Applying proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate, verify, communicate, and resolve software application issues through careful testing in order to maximize the benefit of the company’ IT investments and initiatives.
• Reports - Generating the required weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports and presentations based on applications developed or improved on.
• Monitoring and managing databases for optimal performance.
• Recognize business needs of the organization and create new applications that answer those needs.

Job Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in related information technology degree
• 2-4 years of application development experience.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel
• Working technical knowledge of networks, PCs, servers and operating systems
• Working technical knowledge of current Windows Operating systems software, protocols, and standards, including firewalls and Active Directory
• Experience with languages such as PHP and JavaScript Frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS, and AngularJS
• Experience in developing Business Intelligence solutions. Specific experience with Microsoft PowerBI is a plus
• Demonstrated ability and experience in working with current best practices and technologies for front-end web development such as HTML5, CSS3, JQuery and Bootstrap
• Demonstrated ability and experience in working with one or more server-side web development toolsets such as the LAMP stack