Career Opportunity: Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack
Industry: Engineering and Technology
Location: Nairobi
Reports To: Head of Operations
Gross Salary: Competitive
Our client is a leading global IT solutions provider looking for motivated and highly skilled and talented Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack to help grow the company and achieve its hugely ambitious goal.
The company prides itself on having an excellent internal culture: a healthy mix of change, fast pace, supportive atmosphere, ecosystem collaboration and of course, fun.
The company hires team members of excellent caliber in every role.
While a lot will be asked of you, you will benefit greatly from working in an open, collaborative team, with colleagues who excel.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage & Oversee backend delivery teams
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship via peer reviews and training
- Optimize delivery processes with a proven focus on continuous improvements
- Contribute towards application development
- Ensure application code and process quality standards across the development team
- Create and maintain product and engineering documentation
- Work with the product owners and development team to refine requirements and high-level estimation
- Provide high-level estimations and sizing for upcoming work
- Delegate tasks amongst the team in line with their corresponding skills
- Establish best practices and technical standards amongst the engineering team
- Set and achieve success metrics for the engineering team
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
- 3+ years’ experience in an enterprise-level environment leading a team
- Must Have – Experienced developing applications with R3 Corda Blockchain
- Experience delivering end-to-end platforms and services
- 5+ years development experience using Java 1.8+ & Kotlin
- Familiarity of multiple layers of the infrastructure and application stack from systems / OS development through to networking, middleware and application logic
- Proven problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure
- Strong experience building applications with RESTful style APIs, as well as message queues.
- Understanding how to publish and manage artifacts with a remote repository (i.e. Artifactory, Nexus, etc)
- Understand how to setup, deploy, run and monitor software applications
- Postgres or similar RDBMS development and design
- Security awareness for securing API’s
- Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure
- Good communicator & leader with ability to work autonomously
- Experience using frameworks such as Spring & Spring Boot
- Know how to setup build and test pipeline with CI tools (i.e. Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, Bitbucket Pipeline, Github Actions, Gitlab)
How to Apply
If you are up to the challenge, possess the necessary qualification and experience; please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack) to vacancies@corportestaffing.co.ke by 15th June 2022