Backend Microservices Developer – (23000292)
DESCRIPTION
We are pleased to announce the following vacancy for Backend Microservices Developer in the Technology Division.
In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who
meets the criteria indicated below.
Reporting to the Software
Engineering Lead – Backend Development, the
role holder will run with day-to-day standardized microservice development to
ensure smooth and efficient service delivery that meets the expectations of the
business. They will also perform application development duties which include
but are 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, C#, Python etc. 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#, Python etc.
- 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
