Digital Channels Backend Developer

Employer: Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Permanent

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

Posted date: 2 hours ago

Deadline: December, 04/2024 (8 days left)

Role Purpose:

The position holder will work closely with cross-functional team members to deliver back-end and front-end 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 using ReactJS, NextJS, and Java/Kotlin Spring Boot by applying software engineering best practices and agile methodologies in their delivery.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Develop API endpoints that relay data from different systems and make it available for multiple digital channels.

• Build reusable code and libraries using JavaScript and Java

• Develop a PWA (Progressive Web App) using NextJS, NodeJS and ReactJS

• Ensure the technical feasibility of user stories and UI/UX mock-up designs.

• Participate in technical and non-technical discussions with cross-functional team members to identify, plan and implement solutions

• Work closely with colleagues to constantly innovate app functionality and designs.

• Develop and Integrate to RESTful APIs

• Design and structure relational and object-oriented databases (ie. PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Mongo DB).

• Develop and maintain a headless CMS (WordPress/Drupal/or other).

• Utilize Redis servers to create and configure catching capabilities for mobile and web applications.

• Perform unit testing (UT), Instrumentation Testing, integration test (SIT) and user acceptance tests (UAT) of various modules/units of application.

• Maintain a codebase using git VC.

• Create use CI/CD pipeline for development and deployment activities using Argo CD, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins CI/CD.

• Deploy and extract insight from analytics and monitoring tools such as Google Analytics, SPLUNK, and ELK.

• Perform periodic code refactoring and code optimization to ensure application efficiency based on insights from analytics and monitoring tools.

• Provide application support for both existing and newly deployed applications.

• Remain up to date with the terminology, concepts, and best practices for coding mobile apps and web apps.

Job Requirement

Must have technical/professional qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field

• At least 3 years of experience as a full-stack developer with an in-depth understanding of both web and mobile technology stacks

• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript libraries and frameworks (ReactJS and NextJS).

• Experience in developing hybrid mobile applications using PWA and bridge scripts.

• Experience with REST API integration

• Proficient understanding of version control (Git) and DevOps

Desired

• Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate them to a non-technical audience

• An in-depth understanding of security by design principles

• A strong desire to learn and deliver market-leading user-friendly web and mobile applications

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