REACH Ethiopia is a legal entity established as a local non-governmental organization under the law of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia by proclamation no. 1113/2019, licensed and bearing Certificate No: 3020 from Ethiopian Authority for Civil Society Organizations. REACH Ethiopia invites interested individuals, with the experience of website development to overtake the following responsibilities.

We are looking for a skilled website developer who will be responsible for developing and/or designing website for our organization. S/he will be working alongside our team (Software Engineer and IT Specialist and System Administrator) of our staff in creating, maintaining, and updating our website. S/he will report to both the Planning and M&E Director and Software Engineer.

Functional Responsibilities

• Deliver two important projects: web-based project tracking database and develop or customize e-recruitment system for REACH Ethiopia.
• Examine and evaluate current systems, including hardware, software, and network features and plan new systems that address any issues with the current systems.
• Communicating with management, employees and users and identify system requirements and track additional requirements and features
• Report on all improvements made, as well as any setbacks
• Produce specifications for new or modified systems
• Design, implementation, and deployment agile software
• See through a project from conception to finished product
• Develops business web applications through utilizing modern application development platforms
• Work with development teams and product managers to brainstorm software solutions
• Design front-end and back-end website architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design and design user interactions on web pages
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and servers for required functionality
• Design and write effective APIs.
• Ensure responsiveness and efficiency of applications
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design and ensure cross-platform optimization for mobile phones
• Work alongside graphic designers, data scientists and analysts to improve software
• Stay up to date with advances in web applications development technologies
• Write technical documentation as required.
• Perform any other relevant activities as assigned by the supervisor.

Deliverables

• Proposed start: September 01, 2022
• Deliverable: Projects Database and e-recruitment system with user’s manuals 

Type of Contract: Short term, for two months

Number required: 01

Education, Experience, Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering
• At least Four (4) years of relevant work experience building large-scale software applications
• Experience building web applications
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of ASP.NET Core (C#), MS SqlServer, Angular/React, and Javascript
• Experience implementing and using modern web development workflows and operations using git, including GitHub
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Unit/integration testing experience
• Working knowledge of web user interface design (UI).

Preferred Qualifications

• Awareness of new tools, languages, workflows, and development practices
• Professional certifications