Backend Developer Job at awamo - Career Opportunity in Uganda
Website :
2320 Days Ago
Linkedid Twitter Share on facebook

Vacancy title:
Backend Developer

Jobs at:
awamo

Deadline of this Job:
Monday 27th November 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Overview
The job entails developing and maintaining awamo application’s backend architecture; ensuring that it meets globally accepted standards and provides for different integrations with other solutions.

Qualifications
Academic/Skills

  • Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well
  • Fluency in English
    Work experience
  • Min. 3 years working experience in developing software
  • Experience in developing financial software solutions
  • Experience with several of the following tools/technologies:
  • JEE and Core Java,
  • REST services and APIs
  • Both relational and non-relational database technologies
  • AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, RDS)
  • Netbeans/Postman
  • GitHub/BitBucket/JiraWorking
  • Knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
  • Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
  • Experience in an agile work environment, i.e. source code and build management, testing, continuous integration
  • System Performance Optimization
  • Application security, i.e. storage and transport layer encryption, SSL

Personality

  • Fast thinker/solution oriented
  • Ability to work with remote teams
  • Self-motivated
  • Strong analytical skills & structured approach to work
  • Willingness to work long or irregular hours

Team structure
Direct Supervisor

  • CTO

Direct Subordinates

  • n/a

Work hand in hand with

  • Business Analyst
  • Android Developer
  • Web Developer
  • UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities & duties

  • Develop awamo’s platform (java based) in accordance with business requirements
  • Align with the product management team about features and priorities
  • Take ownership of one or more modules in awamo’s architecture;
  • Biometric authentication server
  • Customize transactional backend (open source, java)
  • Development and implementation of an ETL tool and analytics framework (with some R/python)
  • Participate in the full project life cycle from design to go-live and support
  • Improve automated testing procedures
  • Optimize code after deployment
  • Write documentation for the platform and APIs
  • Work with outside data sources and APIs
  • Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
  • Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
  • Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Key Performance Indicators

  • Number of bugs in released software
  • Turnaround time to develop solutions
  • Code readability

Job application procedure
Candidates meeting the required qualifications should send their applications, academic documents and resumes (soft copy only) to HR.UG@awamo.com

Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Monday 27th November 2017
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Posted: 20-11-2017
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 20-11-2017
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 20-11-2064
Apply Now
Notification Board

Join a Focused Community on job search to uncover both advertised and non-advertised jobs that you may not be aware of. A jobs WhatsApp Group Community can ensure that you know the opportunities happening around you and a jobs Facebook Group Community provides an opportunity to discuss with employers who need to fill urgent position. Click the links to join. You can view previously sent Email Alerts here incase you missed them and Subscribe so that you never miss out.

Caution: Never Pay Money in a Recruitment Process.

Some smart scams can trick you into paying for Psychometric Tests.