Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Plc is a company supporting Ethiopia’s digital transformation. As a member of the Vodacom family, we have a wealth of experience connecting over 334 million people globally and over 180 million people in Africa across our network. We look forward to partnering with Ethiopians as we build a new network in Ethiopia.

 We are setting the groundwork in readiness for the launch of our services next year and are looking to work with purpose-led teams that put the community at the heart of service.

 Safaricom Ethiopia is offering a wide range of careers, whether you’re looking to join our technology, commercial or corporate teams. If you would like a challenge and the promise of a digital future for the people of Ethiopia, we are looking for you.

 Introduction

 We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for Front-End Developer within the M-Pesa Technology Function in Ethiopia. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below. If you’re interested in working in the field of web and mobile application development and moving forward in your career, then this job is for you. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual design.

Ultimately, you should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring great user experience.

Detailed Description

experienced in both mobile and web application development to join our digital channels team. You will work in an agile environment to deliver cutting-edge applications using DevOps practices and tooling. 

Job Description

The position holder will work closely with cross-functional team members to deliver ‘client-side’ applications for the various digital channels (Web, Mobile and Chatbot). They will handle the analysis and implementation of user stories and UI/UX mock-up designs into real-world applications by applying software engineering best practices and agile methodologies in their delivery.

 Key Responsibilities

•  Develop digital products – as part of your role, you will be required to develop products that are mobile, api and microservice driven.
•  Devops – you will be required to develop and support various products. Knowledge of devops tooling is a must: git, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Create new ideas and demonstrate them in code – Code quality, understanding of the product and be able to create new services that conform to a standardized development framework.
• Work with product managers and external parties in a team – Work with cross functional teams to ensure successful delivery of a product which includes other developers and product owners. 
• Ensure delivery timelines – Ensuring all projects are delivered on timelines that have been agreed upon.
• Making use of agile and scrum frameworks in project delivery- making use of tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
• Developing microservices using sprint, sprint security, Kubernetes and dockers
• Always be hands on delivering the highest quality and fixing of issues both on development and production.
• Innovative, open-minded for working with new technologies.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• At least 1-2 years experience in coding in a non-university setting.
• Experience in Java, JEE, spring, spring MVC, spring boot, MAVEN, spring cloud. Should be conversant in Java. Other programming languages such as C#, Golang will be an addition
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture - Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms. This will include when and where to use a particular architecture and pattern.
• Experience developing solutions using agile, DevOps, testing and CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, SonarQube, GitOps etc 
• Build microservices leveraging on cloud Services, Serverless architecture, designing and implementing with full stack solutions leveraging Node or Spring stack.
• Be able to build cloud native and cloud ready solutions using java.
• Strong understanding of Docker-based container, Kubernetes, or other container schedulers.
• Understanding of both soap and rest apis and development on swagger UI
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies – AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience with automated testing tools – SonarQube, Veracode

How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on CLICK HERE