Vacancy title:
Backend Developer

Jobs at:
awamo

Deadline of this Job:
7th December, 2018.

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: 29th November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

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

• 3 – 5 years working experience in developing software and coding
  
• 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/Jira
  
• Working 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
  

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 API
  
• 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