Software Engineer/ Full Stack Developer at Farsight Africa Group

WHAT YOU'LL DO AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER/ FULL STACK DEVELOPER:

• Creating prototypes, designing and building modules and solutions in an iterative agile cycle, developing, maintaining, and optimising the business outcome
• Estimating user and technical stories, designing and developing code, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables against user and technical story acceptance tests
• Performing peer reviews, collaborating with architects and other developers to produce “just enough” design, and ensuring that enough technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support
• Developing and executing automation scripts and maintenance jobs
• Conducting peer reviews and maintaining coding standards
• Resolving incidents as level two and level three support
• Resolving problems as level two and level three support
• Estimating user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize the backlog
• Designing modules according to user stories, UX/UI designs, and technical stories
• Developing solutions according to module designs and deploying using a delivery pipeline
• Developing and executing unit and integration tests; supporting testing against user and technical story acceptance tests.
• Reviewing design and architecture to guarantee service availability, performance and resilience.
• Prepares documentation (User manuals, Technical manuals, deployment instructions, rollback instructions, etc.) to ensure that they meet set quality standards
• Ensures that the approved coding standards are consistently applied in every solution developed.
• Participates in system demonstration, and ensures issues arising in demos are addressed.
• Diagnoses complex application issues and provides guidance and support to subordinates.
• Addresses issues that arise during deployment of the newly developed solutions in the QA test environment.
• Resolves issues arising from QA tests, for solutions that do not pass QA standards and Information System Security policies.
• Ensure conformity to ISO (9001:2015 and 27001:2013) and data security requirements.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications or any other IT related field.
• At least three (3) years’ experience as a software developer in a busy organization.
• Systems Development i.e. Java Programming, Python, Web Design and Development, Oracle Developer etc.
• Business Systems Analysis i.e. CBAP Certification / Training
• Systems Modelling and Design Techniques
• Process Modelling and Design Techniques
• Training in middle level management / Supervisory Skills courses.
• IT Governance i.e. ITIL or COBIT 4/5
• Project Management i.e. PMP or Prince 2
• Training or Certification in Database Administration i.e. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server.