Vacancy title:
Backend Developer

Jobs at:
awamo

Deadline of this Job:
Monday 27th November 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Overview
The job entails developing and maintaining awamo application’s backend architecture; ensuring that it meets globally accepted standards and provides for different integrations with other solutions.

Qualifications
Academic/Skills

• Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well
  
• Fluency in English
  Work experience
  
• Min. 3 years working experience in developing software
  
• Experience in developing financial software solutions
  
• Experience with several of the following tools/technologies:
• JEE and Core Java,

• REST services and APIs
  
• Both relational and non-relational database technologies
  
• AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, RDS)
  
• Netbeans/Postman
  
• GitHub/BitBucket/JiraWorking
  

• Knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
  
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
  
• Experience in an agile work environment, i.e. source code and build management, testing, continuous integration
  
• System Performance Optimization
  
• Application security, i.e. storage and transport layer encryption, SSL
  

Personality

• Fast thinker/solution oriented
  
• Ability to work with remote teams
  
• Self-motivated
  
• Strong analytical skills & structured approach to work
  
• Willingness to work long or irregular hours
  

Team structure
Direct Supervisor

• CTO
  

Direct Subordinates

• n/a
  

Work hand in hand with

• Business Analyst
  
• Android Developer
  
• Web Developer
  
• UI/UX Designer
  

Responsibilities & duties

• Develop awamo’s platform (java based) in accordance with business requirements
  
• Align with the product management team about features and priorities
  
• Take ownership of one or more modules in awamo’s architecture;
  

• Biometric authentication server
  
• Customize transactional backend (open source, java)
  
• Development and implementation of an ETL tool and analytics framework (with some R/python)
  

• Participate in the full project life cycle from design to go-live and support
  
• Improve automated testing procedures
  
• Optimize code after deployment
  
• Write documentation for the platform and APIs
  
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
  
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
  
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
  
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
  

Key Performance Indicators

• Number of bugs in released software
  
• Turnaround time to develop solutions
  
• Code readability

Job application procedure
Candidates meeting the required qualifications should send their applications, academic documents and resumes (soft copy only) to HR.UG@awamo.com