Job Opportunities at Safaricom Kenya

Key Responsibilities

• Agile ways of working, including the use of tools such as Jira & Confluence 
• Work as a Squad Member in the domain of expertise, to maximize Squad performance by sharing expertise with Squad members and working cross-functionally with other squads/teams.
• Responsible for building, maintaining and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable and distributed systems.
• Responsible for application development to ensure applications fit within the infrastructure with scalability, reliability and security designed and implemented from the onset. 
• Responsible for establishing and improving team processes and workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity of people  and systems. 
• Responsible for reviewing  cloud technologies and defining digital transformation models and roadmaps for the digital workspace domain.
• Lead in automation of infrastructure at massive scale to support scaling of digital services.
• Professional experience in building robust data pipelines using ETL tools
• Plan, design and implement data analytics or digital solutions across Digital Workspace
• Work with relevant stakeholders to gather, understand and define requirements for improvement.
• Analyze requirements, identify required work and estimate development tasks.
• Collaborate with other engineers, managers and Business teams to develop innovative solutions with a target to reduce repetitive tasks or processes through automation. 
• Participate in agile teams to build operational efficiencies and improve Digital workspace customer experience. 
• Work closely with respective teams to test and confirm the developed solutions meet a satisfactory user journey.
• Document digital Workspace designs and solutions being developed to address operational needs. 
• Plan, design and implement monitoring requirements for all Digital Workspace systems. 
• Evolve user systems to cloud native and collaborate in testing and implementation to ensure set requirements and standards are achieved. 
• Implement and enhance security designs for all Digital workspace systems

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical & Electronics/ Telecommunications/Computer Science or IT Related courses
• Agile Methodology
• Application & Web Development (Reporting and Visualization Tools)
• Cloud Computing AWS, O365.
• Programming 
• Cyber Security Basics
• Data Analytics
• DevOps
• Network Technologies
• Problem solving skills

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Key Responsibilities

• Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
• Developing and maintaining highly responsive and reusable user interface components using react concepts.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Translating UI/UX designs to frontend code in the recommended tech stack.
• Optimize web applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Documenting web application changes and developing updates.
• Maintain and update project dependencies as well as fix any conflicts.
• Collaboration with other engineers to develop front-end and backend architectures that are well structured and flexible.
• Integrate to Rest and GraphQl API’s.
• Writing unit tests for code written and any legacy code that has high failure rate.
• Work with modern tools including Confluence, Jira, Slack, GitHub etc
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software development or a related technical field. This is optional, as long as you can showcase what you can do.
• 3+ years working as a frontend web engineer.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proficient understanding of HTML, CSS and Javascript.
• Good understanding of common programming paradigms and fundamental React principles such as React components, hooks, and the React lifecycle.
• Good understanding of SSR, SSG and CSR.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
• Good understanding of Node Js and GraphQL.
• Good understanding of writing unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• Proficient understanding of version control (Git)
• Familiarity with Apollo client and Apollo server is a plus.
• Familiarity with Material UI is a plus.