Software Developer / Software Engineer at Byteworks

Location: Lekki, Lagos   

Job Role

• As a software developer, you’ll be the brain behind crafting, developing, testing, going live and maintaining the system.
• You are passionate in understanding the business context for features built to drive better customer experience and adoption.

Experience

• A minimum of 2 years of professional experience, during which you’ve developed technical expertise and stellar professional skills.

Requirements:

• Highly proficient in Java/Java EE and any other programming and/or scripting languages
• Proficient in web services / API design and implementation with Java (proficiency in the Spring framework is an advantage), as well as web application frontend (Angular, React, HTML/CSS, Responsive Design)
• Understanding of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API, ES6+ features
• Experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
• Proficient in data layer design (for both relational and nosql databases). Practical knowledge of related concepts such as normalization (up to the 3rd normal form)
• Familiarity with at least one web server technology -- (ex: Apache, Nginx)
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Candidate should have a very good grasp of the software development lifecycle: SDLC (Requirement gathering and analysis, Design, Implementation and Coding, Testing [including unit and integration testing], Deployment, Maintenance)
• Understands and is able to design and implement software to support performance on scale (when it's interacting with a lot of users and/or a lot of data)
• Follows good practice for software development (clean code, test coverage, source code version control, pull requests, code review, issue tracking, graceful as well as aggressive error handling)
• Practical knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• At least some basic agile / project management skills; required to deliver on a software feature / project
• Have a working understanding of application security concepts (security of data at rest or in transit, access control, audit logging) and be able to apply them in application design and development
• Proficiency in the use of modern tools and technologies that help with the software development lifecycle. Specifically:
  • Git for version control
  • Maven or Gradle for project lifecycle management
  • UML2.0+ (Class diagrams, Use case diagrams)
  • Docker for containerized deployment & test-driven-development (TDD)
• Attitude to fit, and a decent dose of effective curiosity. Our values are Excellence, Commitment, Innovation, and Integrity; and our approach to work is Kaizen - Continuous Improvement
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Knowledge of unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, with at least one relevant testing framework
• Awareness of the capabilities of applicable languages/frameworks/libraries as well as the inherent differences between them in order to understand trade-offs and make recommendations.