Senior Software Developer at CarePay Ltd

Duties for the Software Developer Job

• Analysing user requirements, researching, designing and writing new software programs
• Develop software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Responding promptly and professionally to bug reports.
• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors; recommending purchases; testing and approving products
• Evaluating the software and systems that make computers and hardware work;
• Creating technical specifications and test plans;
• Writing operational documentation with technical authors;
• Maintaining systems by monitoring and correcting software defects;
• Working closely with other staff, such as project managers, graphic artists, designers, developers, systems analysts, and sales and marketing professionals;
• Consulting clients and colleagues concerning the maintenance and performance of software systems and with a view to writing or modifying current operating systems;
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential.
• Preparation of training manuals and training users
• Handling support and feedback
• Maintaining the systems once they are up and running
• Investigating new technologies;
• Continually updating technical knowledge and skills by attending in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and accessing new applications.

Software Developer Job Requirements

• Degree qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science, software engineering, or related field
• Knowledge in Software Development Fundamentals, Software Development Process, Software Requirements.
• Knowledge of release management tools
• More than 5 years of work experience in an active senior software development position
• Track record of enterprise applications
• Experience and knowledge in software development lifecycle
• IT Project management experience
• Training focused on system architecture, Software Design, Software Debugging, Software Documentation, and Software Testing.
• Extensive experience in cloud based scalable application deployment and maintenance. Knowledge in Amazon/IBM cloud tools will be an added advantage.
• Expertise in at least three (3) RDMS (Relational Database Management System) and two (2) NoSQL database system.
• Good knowledge of software and programming languages with ability to use professionally at least two or more development language (JAVA, Python, PHP, HTML5). Primary language being JAVA.
• Knowledge on Android, IOS or C# will be added advantage.
• An understanding of the latest trends and their role in a commercial environment
• An understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues.