Software Engineering at Duma works

You would be joining a tight-knit team in at a time when you can make a real impact on the direction of the company. Being a startup the work is fast paced and varied – you are flexible to change and motivated to deliver the best product possible.

Who you are:

Full-stack web generalist with solid experience in building elegant and human-friendly web applications.

Skills include:

• Languages – PHP, Java, HTML5, CSS, SQL, XML
• Frameworks – jQuery, Node.js, laravel, yii, cake, codeigniter
• Databases – MySQL, NoSQL
• Database designing and knowledge of relational database systems, object oriented programming and web application development.
• Understanding of REST API/ JSON is a must
• Experience in e-commerce platforms, payment gateway integration & operations will be a big advantage especially, on content-heavy platforms.
• Ability to decipher and write complex database queries for analysis
• Good to have knowledge of AWS Cloud Hosting, GCP, Hostgator and Microsoft Azure
• Understanding of load balancing, scalability issues and their solutions
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Knowledge and experience with API development and integrations.
• Experience with App development and/or chatbots is a plus
• Develop new user-facing features
• Creating website layout/user interfaces by using standard html/css practices
• Experience with creating beautiful, dynamic and user friendly web applications
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Understanding of open source projects like Drupal, WordPress, SquareSpace, Magento (CE and EE), Shopify, BigCommerce, OpenCart, PrestaShop etc

Requirements for the Software Engineering Job

• You should be able to quickly learn new languages, frameworks, and technologies as needed.
• You should be able to switch between tech stacks.
• Solid proficiency with other dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python is preferred.
• Basic knowledge of search engine optimization process.
• Experience with USSD/SMS based applications and VAS technologies is a strong point.
• You should be meticulous with documentation and quality control.
• You should have experience with building strong and scalable system architecture.
• Extensive experience working as a developer.
• Experience working in a customer facing role.
• Experience with devops.
• Several years of experience as a team lead or people manager in a technical environment. Experience with using agile methodologies for product development. Strong preference for candidates with some sort of
• SCRUM certification. Some sort of knowledge of design thinking will be a plus.
• Experience with (and advocate of) modern development techniques including Behaviour Driven Development, test automation, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, continuous user testing.
• Interest in new innovations such as machine learning, AI, blockchain etc.

Moreover, you should be someone who:

• Puts the company first and strongly believes in the company’s vision.
• Comfortable working for with a diverse, non-technical, and younger team.
• Has excellent communication and listening skills, especially with a diverse team and non-technical colleagues; values transparency in decision-making.
• Believes in the value of a team and readily participates in team building activities.
• Strong leadership qualities.
• Believes in always over-delivering, and doing work with excellence.
• Constantly innovating and coming up with ways to upgrade and expand our product line.
• Flexible; incorporating user feedback into product development, and responding to market needs, even if the latter involves coming up with new features/applications.

Software Engineering Job Responsibilities

• Actively adding to the codebase. Performing varied development tasks across the entire stack.
• Analyze the current codebase we have, maintain and improve it.
• Bringing the product to market. Build lean MVPs to test and iterate quickly based on user feedback.
• Provide budget-friendly, cost-effective recommendations for product development.
• Work with the team to help provide strategies for business development and marketing, by providing technical perspective/insight.
• Gather and prioritize requirements and features.
• Managing other developers, implementing best practice such as TDD, Agile processes, creating shared coding standards, and overall ensuring that the team is producing high quality, easily maintainable code.
• Ownership over the application roadmap, also guiding architecture-level decisions. Set the structure and goals for the development team, provide technical direction, lead the development of tools to make scalable web applications.
• Architect for scaling.