Head of Software Developers (Front & Backend Developer)

We are a technology, consulting, training and coaching firm in Agility (Agile) Services in the country is currently looking for a resourceful, reliable and energetic Software Developer. As one of our Software Developers, you will be joining a team of developers in the  Lab to develop new software solutions to satisfy African and Global Markets.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 life-cycle.
• Develop features across multiple subsystems within our applications, including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing and deployment
• Understand how our applications operate, are structured, and how customers use them
• Provide engineering support when building, deploying, configuring and supporting systems for customers
• Participate with the engineering and operations teams to define plans for standardizing, scaling and enhancing our products and the services utilized to deploy/install/release those products
• Investigate, analyse and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
• 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.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Provides information by collecting, analysing, and summarizing development and service issues.
• Develop web applications and web designs for the Group and clients who request for such services
• Providing key product support to Sokopay, Sokoshopper and other group products developed in the Sokolab
• Supporting all group products by helping drive revenue across the business.
• Attend industry events and acquire a keen understanding of the industry.
• Work on any other responsibility assigned to you by Leadership 

Role Requirement

• Self-starter, able to work with very little supervision.
• Goal and results driven 
• Very meticulous and pays attention to details
• Key understanding of Agile and the practice of Scrum, Kanban and lean.
• Service-oriented, with strong organisational and communication skills.
• Strong Microsoft Word and Excel skills.
• Able to successfully handle multiple priorities.
• A certain degree of creativity, latitude, and problem solving.
• Possess good presentation, negotiation skills and work all angles to achieve results.
• Articulate, highly motivated, young, energetic, and embrace challenges.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to motivate self and staff
• The ability to write reports.
• Excellent telephone manners.
• Fearless attitude and a hunter mentality.
• Work with systems
• Duplicate standard events procedure
• Business minded solutions and entrepreneurship mindset
• Will develop and manage high performing teams
• Awareness of agile
• Ability to deal and interact with c-level executives
• Tech background
• Strong emphasis on business
• Business Talk/value of agile
• Sales /marketing
• Thinker +problem solver
• Customer engagement
• Account management
• Sales engagement

Education/Experience 

• Degree in computer science, computer engineering or any other equivalent qualification.
• At least 7 to 10 years of work experience 

Technical Skills Required

• UR,UX,Servers.
• Should be a result oriented leader
  
• Understanding of OOA/D and SOLID principles
• Knowledge of your primary OO language
• Some experience with massively scalable multi-threaded applications using non-Enterprise
• Java
• Some experience implementing RESTful API’s or willing to learn
• Exposed to languages e.g. JavaScript (web frameworks, NodeJS), Scala, Python, Perl.
• Willing to jump easily between languages and are comfortable implementing solutions using the best stack for the job
• Understanding and some experience of authentication and security standards, e.g. OAuth, PKI, encryption, etc.
• Familiarity with NOSQL databases, e.g. MongoDB, Redis, graph databases, etc. beneficial
• Familiarity with Amazon’s cloud stack, e.g. DynamoDB, Redshift, etc. beneficial Exposure to Speech Analytics, Natural Language Processing and Semantic Search a distinct bonus