Exciting Opportunity
Well Told Story (WTS) is a thriving, socially-oriented media research and production company based in Kenya and Tanzania and is primarily focused on the positive transformation of young people in Africa. Since our establishment in 2009, WTS has developed and produced a set of interlinked and evolving media reaching more than half of Kenyans aged 15-24 and winning multiple International awards.
Well Told Story (WTS) is a thriving, socially-oriented media research and production company based in Kenya and Tanzania and is primarily focused on the positive transformation of young people in Africa. Since our establishment in 2009, WTS has developed and produced a set of interlinked and evolving media reaching more than half of Kenyans aged 15-24 and winning multiple International awards.
We are seeking to recruit a Junior
Backend Developer to join our Digital team
working on cutting edge youth focused products.
Based in our Kenya office the role
will be responsible for creating, maintaining and optimizing source codes as
well as design and develop new feature for well told story projects.
Key responsibilities:
·
Work with the product and design
teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then
translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution;
·
Build robust and scalable API and
backend solutions on Azure;
·
Optimization of the application for
maximum speed and scalability;
·
Implementation of security and data
protection policies; and
·
Help improve our code quality through
writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
Person specifications
·
At least one-year recent hands-on
experience in coding and software design using .NET stack (C# Language, .NET
Core, .NET Framework) on Azure cloud infrastructure.
·
A Bachelor’s degree in computer science
or related field, or an intriguing reason for not having one.
·
Solid OOP and software design
knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable
and meets desired architectural objectives.
·
Experience creating restful API’s, setting
up continuous integration and deployment and proper documentation.
·
Management of hosting environment,
including database administration and scaling an application to support load
changes.
·
Implementing automated testing
platforms and unit tests.
·
Strong analytical and problem-solving
skills.
We
are seeking to recruit a Junior
Frontend Developer to join
our Digital team working on cutting edge youth focused products.
Based
in our Kenya office the role will be responsible for combining the art of
design with the art of programming.
The
role will involve translation of the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code
that will produce visual elements of the application.
Key responsibilities:
·
Conduct developer white and black box
testing as well as user acceptance testing with the customer, to ensure that
the solution meets the expectation of the users and is hence accepted;
·
Working with Designers, UX and Back
End Engineers to ensure that applications are built with clean, beautiful and
intuitive interfaces;
·
Work closely with design, product
management and development teams to create elegant, usable, responsive and
interactive interfaces across multiple devices;
·
Turning UI/UX designs into
prototypes, creating awesome interactions from designs, writing reusable content
modules and maintainability of the code;
·
Building web interfaces using HTML,
CSS and JavaScript;
·
Writing clean and tested front end
code; and
·
Implement UI development principles
to ensure that the product client-side serves at scale.
Person specifications
·
At least one-year recent hands-on
coding experience as a web developer, UI developer, JavaScript expert or
frontend engineer using React JS or similar frameworks.
·
Bachelor’s degree in a computer
science or related field, or an intriguing reason for not having one.
·
Solid OOP and software design
knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable
and meets desired architectural objectives.
·
Implementing automated testing
platforms and unit tests.
·
Agile process management JIRA/VSTS
and proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Interested
candidates who meet the above requirements should submit their applications
with an inspiring Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae to: Jobs@welltoldstory.com
on or before 19 April 2019.
The
email subject line must clearly show the job you are applying for.
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Please
note that WTS does not charge fees for any stage of the recruitment.
