Senior Technology Officer at Safaribet Kenya

Job description

Key responsibilities may include:

• Develops 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.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Execute full lifecycle software development and writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Tailor and deploy software tools, processes and metrics
• Act as one of the main technical point of contact with external software providers & technical vendors e.g. Telecoms; Odds feed providers etc.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science, System Engineering or related field
• 3-5 years’ of experience in development
• Strong PHP development skills
• Experience with Yii framework
• Experience in developing Hybrid HTML5 Applications
• Good understanding and experience in Web Front end development frameworks – Twitter Bootstrap, AngularJS etc
• Responsive web development based on HTML5, CSS3, Bootrstrap, Material Web, Flat UI Design, REST, SOAP, JSON, JQUERY and AJAX technologies
• Ability to develop web services based on REST, SOAP, JSON, JQUERY and AJAX technologies WebGL
• Database design and management (in MySQL, Postgres, SQLite)
• Good understanding of Email and SMS gateway integration
• Ability to perform performance tuning
• Ability to interface PHP with other langauges e.g. Java, C++
• Proven experience in successfully managed software development projects