Job Description
Job Summary:
Identify, prioritizing and executing tasks in the software development life cycle of a product.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Produce application architecture design translated from high-level product/user requirements
- Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product feature/enhancements in an agile environment
- Develop customer-facing applications using RESTful APIs
- Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements
- Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
- Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
- Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object oriented design principles
- Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as setup automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability
- Work with frontend designers and converting designs to visual elements.
- Maintain code and application security at all times. Ensure data protection.
- Develop applications in back-end programming languages like Java, .NET, PHP as well as web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Node.js), Jquery
Competence and Skill Requirements:
- Proficient with object oriented design in a back-end programming language e.g. Java, .NET, PHP, JavaScript (Node.js)
- Proficient with web applications and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery
- Possess excellent knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support company products
- Proficient in data migration, transformation, and scripting
- Understand design principles behind highly scalable applications
- Be able to manage applications on a wide variety of cloud platforms, and perform database administration and application scaling to support load changes
- Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Possess solid communication skills and a strong customer focus
- Maintain good knowledge of emerging technologies
Key Performance Indicators:
- Clarity of documentation
- Quality of written codes
- High velocity rate (Number of features delivered in a period)
- Fast backlog burn rate
- No of escaped bugs
- Application user satisfaction score
- Uptime vs. downtime of developed applications
- Accuracy and timeliness of management information and reports
- Timeliness of responses to customer enquiries and complaints across all channels