Software Engineer II at Kyosk Digital Services

Role Profile:

Kyosk is looking for a passionate Software Engineer II to help strengthen the development competency of a team of software engineers who are developing solutions on the leading edge of innovation in Africa. The successful candidate will play a supporting role in the full SDLC of the team's output.  

As a Software Engineer II, you’ll join our growing team of Product and Technology professionals who share a passion for leveraging technology to empower informal retailers across the African continent. You’ll work with teams from multiple countries across the organization to imagine and build innovative solutions for Kyosk’s customers and internal teams.

To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about using technology to solve real world problems. You will contribute to high quality, resilient, scalable software using industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design of technical solutions
• Deliver working software implemented from technical designs
• Investigate and resolve errors
• Adhere to Kyosk's development processes

Minimum Technical Requirements:

• 3 years of software development experience
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Experience with administrative tools, e.g. Issue Tracking, Wikis, etc
• Working knowledge of dev tool chain (e.g. IDE, CI/CD, version control)
• Backend dev: Working knowledge of Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate.
• Frontend dev: Working knowledge of Angular
• Basic knowledge of containerization and orchestration
• Experience implementing components of a system from technical designs/specifications

Minimum Behavioural and Soft Skills Requirements:

• Strong work ethic
• Focus on delivery
• Punctual
• Works mostly independently
• Passion for learning
• Considerate of value chain outside of sphere of responsibility

Desired Technical Competencies:

• 1 years experience of the full SDLC (analysis, design, development, testing, integration, deployment, documentation, triage)
• Sound knowledge of the microservices design pattern
• Basic knowledge of any cloud platform
• Experience implementing basic unit tests
• Basic knowledge of Kafka
• Frontend dev: working knowledge of NestJS
• Experience in e-commerce, payments, and/or distribution of FMCG products
• Experience using GCP
• Working knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes for orchestration
• Basic knowledge of the shift-left approach
• Experience implementing unit tests
• Working knowledge of system non-functional requirements (e.g. code readability, maintainability, scalability, extensibility, testability, etc)

Desired Behavioral Competencies:

• Ability to give reasonably accurate time estimates
• Constantly seeks to improve tech and processes to streamline development
• Ability to work under pressure, with tight timelines and ambitious deadlines
• You have integrity: you do what you say you will do and make no excuses. 
• Promote psychological safety in the team, as well as across the entire organization.