Jobs and Vacancies in Kilimall, Kenya

Kilimall International Job Opportunities
 
1. UX Architect (One)
  • 3+ years of UX design experience.
  • BS in computer science or an equivalent degree.
  • Strong conceptualization ability and strong visual communication ability.
  • Experience designing web and mobile solutions for ecommerce platforms.
  • Gather and document functional requirements for upcoming web and mobile releases.
  • Analyze business needs and produce detailed wireframes that meet strategic objectives.
  • Optimize information architecture to promote usability, while accommodating technical needs / constraints
  • Develop user flows and personas to facilitate feature design process.
  • Oversee all user facing text to synthesize tone, language, and messaging
  • Craft internal and external communications around upcoming features, including release notes, user manuals and feature descriptions.
  • Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail.
  • Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and wireframing tools.
  • Extensive experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies across multiple platforms.
  • Have a keen grasp of human/computer interaction and psychology.
  • Understand the impact technologies such as XML, HTML, and CSS have on user experience.
  • Create and maintain UX guidelines, standards, and development processes for user-centric products.
  • High energy level, enthusiastic, and eager to do what is necessary to be successful.
  • Highly creative and inquisitive; able to multitask effectively.
  • Clear leadership skills.
2. Senior Front End Developer (One)
  • BS in computer science or an equivalent degree.
  • 4+ years’ experience engineering object-oriented, JavaScript-based behavioral layers for web applications, that work on a variety of browsers and devices.
  • A strong portfolio that demonstrates your design and thinking skills.
  • Exceptional experience with an MVC framework (Laravel preferred).
  • Excellent HTML 4, HTML 5, XHTML, CSS and CSS3 programming skills.
  • Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as Sass/Less, Grunt etc.
  • Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.
  • Good understanding of code versioning systems such as Git/Mercurial/SVN.
  • Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
  • Implement coding best practices and maintain good code organization.
  • Participate in the full software development life cycle (SDLC).
  • Assist in defining software architectures by collaborating with leads to explore existing systems, determine areas of complexity and potential risks to successful implementation.
  • Own success – Take responsibility for successful delivery of the solutions.
  • Be passionate about learning new skills and helping others to develop.
3. Front End Developers (Mobile & Web) (Six)
  • BS in computer science or an equivalent degree.
  • 2+ years working experience.
  • Create/Implement design prototypes, site navigation, and layout of content.
  • A strong portfolio that demonstrates your design and thinking skills.
  • Developing pleasurable human interface experiences using design thinking.
  • Must have advanced knowledge of CMS systems.
  • Exceptional experience with an MVC framework (Laravel preferred).
  • Excellent HTML 4, HTML 5, XHTML, CSS and CSS3 programming skills.
  • Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as Sass/Less, Grunt etc.
  • Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.
  • Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
  • Good understanding of code versioning systems such as Git/Mercurial/SVN.
  • Good understanding of basic SEO principles.
  • Experience with AngularJS / BackboneJS / ReactJS etc.
  • Must be knowledgeable and demonstrate experience with cross-browser and cross-platform/device issues.
4. Back End Developer (One)
  • BS in computer science or an equivalent degree.
  • Hands on experience with Payment platforms and ability to use API's.
  • Exceptional experience with an MVC framework (Laravel preferred).
  • Understands and uses / has used test driven development.
  • Experience with Nginx, Ubuntu, BitBucket / Git version control and deployment framework like AWS.
  • Strong concepts in object oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, scalability/performance security protocols.
  • Relational database design experience.
  • 2+ years of backend web development experience.  
  • 2+ years developing in Java.
  • Knowledge of web service technologies: RESTful APIs, XML, SOAP, JSON.
  • Strength in SQL. Familiarity with concepts like joins, keys and optimizations.
  • Courage to dig-in and refactor other people’s code and explore new technology.
  • A Github, Quora, or StackOverflow account that demonstrates what you love.
  • Desire to be part of a revolution in software on a team that Gets Things Done.
All interested applicants should forward their CV and mandatory cover letter to hr@kilimall.com  not later than 22nd Feb 2016