Microservice Developer at Safaricom Kenya

Brief Description 

Reporting to the Micro services & APIs Tech Lead, the job holder will run day to day micro service development to ensure smooth and efficient service delivery that meets the expectations of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop digital products – as part of your role, you will be required to develop products that are mobile, api and microservice driven.
• Devops – you will be required to develop and support products that are been built using various tools along with creating CI/CD pipelines.
• Create new ideas and demonstrate them in code – Code quality, understanding of the product and services.
• Work with product managers and external parties in a team – Work with cross functional teams to ensure successful delivery of a product which includes other developers and product owners. 
• Ensure delivery timelines – Ensuring all projects are delivered on time that has been agreed.
• Making use of agile and scrum frameworks in project delivery- making use of tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
• Developing microservices using sprint, sprint security, Kubernetes and dockers
• Always be hands on delivering the highest quality and fixing of issues both on development and production.
•  Innovative, open-minded for working with new technologies.
• Be proficient in both api management, api gateways and building of microservices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• At least 1 year experience in coding in a non-university setting.
• Have some experience and strong understanding around core systems: ESB’s preferable Tibco, mobile money, billing, VAS solutions (Ussd, SMS). 
• Experience in Java, JEE, spring, spring MVC, spring boot, MAVEN, spring cloud and other programming languages like C, C++, Java.
• Have experience around api gateways and api management: apigee, wso2, nginx, custom gateways.
• Have knowledge on architectures, basic api functionalities – throttling, key managements and building of microservices using maven.
• Strong understanding of end to end api and microservice architecture - Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms end to end all the way to the gateways.
• Experience developing solutions using agile, DevOps, testing and CI/CD automation tools such as jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, SonarQube, GitOps etc
• Strong Understanding of both soap and rest apis and development on swagger UI using open APIs.