Software Developer at Kimberly Ryan Limited

Job Description

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 & Proficiencies:

• 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).