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)
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 the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.
About Us
We are the leading telecommunication company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information.
We keep over 42 million customers connected and play a critical role in the society, supporting over one million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 362 Billion ($ 3.2 billion) for the 12 months through March 2021.
We are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and with annual revenues of close to KES 298 Billion ($2.5 billion) as at March 2022. We were founded in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya before a 40 percent acquisition by Vodafone Group PLC in May 2000, and a public offering of 25 percent shares through the NSE in 2008. Under the management of Vodafone Group PLC, we welcomed Michael Joseph, as our first CEO, a few months later in July of 2000.
He led the company’s growth to accommodate 16.71 million subscribers from the previous 20,000, largely owing to innovative products like M-PESA in 2007.