Job Description
Reporting
to the Software Engineering Lead – Backend
Development, the job holder will run with day-to-day
standardized microservice development to ensure smooth and efficient service
delivery that meets the expectations of the business.
Application
development duties include but not limited to specification, design,
development, validation, documentation, and evolution of the new and current
service applications; performance management; ensuring integrity of the web
services; maintenance and fault management.
Responsibilities
- Writing and analyzing code for portions
of a project/projects.
- Inspect and test code.
- Helping engineers fix and solve complex
problems.
- Work with stakeholders, product owners
and technical leads to keep projects on track.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to entry
level and mid-level software engineers.
- Influence and guide on DevSecOps best
practices within Safaricom Engineering framework and practices.
- Development of microservices. It would be
good to have understanding of Java or C#. Java with SpringBoot Framework
experience is preferred.
- Influence and guide the team in making
critical architectural, design and programming decisions.
- Evangelize software engineering best
practices across the team using Safaricom Engineering values.
- Design, test and rollout of running
software services.
- Run and enforce code reviews among the
team.
Qualifications
- BSc. Computer Science/Software
Engineering/IT.
- 5+ years’ experience in software
development in a busy IT environment.
- Experience in Agile Development/software
life-cycle development (SDLC).
- Strong programming and technical skills.
Extensive programming experience using Java(SpringBoot Framework),
C#
- Strong problem-solving skills leveraging
on data structures and algorithms.
- Passion for people and building
collaborative teams.
- Extensive experience with databases –
relational data model, Stored Procedures, PL/SQL development, Messaging /
Streaming, RDBMS, NoSql Databases and InMemory Databases.
- Solid understanding of web
services/technologies – REST/JSON, WSDL, XML, XSD;
- Hands on experience with microservices –
Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice
based platforms based on java. Spring boot framework is preferred.
- Solid understanding of Cloud Services,
Serverless architecture and knowledge of AWS, Azure and GCP.
- Experience developing solutions using
agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD automation tools such as jenkins, JMeter, Git,
Stash, SonarQube, GitOps etc
- Experience using code versioning &
collaboration tools such as Gitlab or Github.
- Experience in application security
technologies (e.g. SSL)
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