About Blue Spark Business Technology

Blue Spark Business Technology Solution Plc, is a leading provider of comprehensive technology, telecom, and financial solutions in Ethiopia. With a focus on cutting-edge products and services, Blue Spark operates across various sectors, offering hardware distribution, telecom services distribution, networking solutions, financial products, and more. We are committed to innovation, customer satisfaction, and delivering world-class technology solutions in East Africa.

We offer complete systems integration in areas such as networking, remote communications, web application development, custom training and Internet solutions. We provide both products and service in this area, from pure consulting and design work, to complete

installation and integration services. We also engaged in IT and Telecom product sales and distribution with more than 1,400 sales staff and 73 self-owned branch shops across the country.

We are looking for a senior software programmer, who will be responsible for the development, analysis and reporting of a hign impact business solution.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ability to interpret business needs to program specifications and use cases 

• Ability to manage a team of software developers

• Strong technical and problem-solving capability

• Ability to guide junior programmers with best practices and implementation

• Ability to develop, and maintain software applications using various programming languages and technologies.

• Collaborate with junior and senior software developers, project managers, and stakeholders to ensure that software development aligns with business needs and requirements.

• Capability to proactively identifying and addressing software vulnerabilities

• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure software quality

• Conduct software testing, debugging, and troubleshooting to ensure software applications are of the highest quality.

• Participation in code and design reviews

• Encoding the necessary data on the developed application database

• Provide support to end-users and clients to ensure that software applications are running smoothly and efficiently.

• Upgrade and debug software when required

• Data analysis and reporting based on the business requirement

• Use a code style that is efficient and easy to read

• Carry out unit tests and system integration

• Trail a continuous learning curve

Job Requirements

Qualifications and Essential Skills 

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree preferred in Computer Science or relevant fields. 

• More than 4 years of work experience in design and development of enterprise applications

• Provable skills in working on cloud deployment and maintenance of such systems

• Experience in HTML5, Tailwind CSS, Svelte Js, React.js, React Native, Flutter frond end technologies

• Experience in Java, Python, Javascript, C#, Ruby programming technologies

• Experience in Django, Spring, Express,js, Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET frameworks

• Experience in Restful API, JSON and XML.

• Experience in MySQL, PostgresSQL, MongoDB and Redis database systems.

• Experience working with software development tools such as git, github tools, and Visual Studio.

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence / Deep Learning

• Experience in enterprise application programming

• Strong knowledge on Data Analysis and Reporting

• Analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work independently and within a team environment

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

How to Apply

Applicants are kindly requested to submit their applications via email to: info@bluespark.et.
Please make sure to clearly mention the position you are applying for in the subject line of your email.