Senior Full Stack Developer/Digital Channels Lead

ICT - Dar es salaam

Job Purpose

The Senior Full Stack Developer/ Digital Channels Lead will work with the ICT team to assist in the architecture, design, build and maintain software products within IMT Tech Stack. You will also help develop and implement release plans and scripts using deployment automation tools like Hybrid DevOps CI/CD pipelines. The Full stack developer needs to contribute to the architecture across the technology stack, and implementation of solutions in public and private infrastructure. Most importantly, we are looking for a hands-on developer, who has a desire to:

• constantly learn more about software,
• maintain and extend existing software and deployments,
• work with others, including infrastructure engineers, and product managers to build the best products in the industry.

Key Responsibilities/Tasks

• Creating and maintaining infrastructure using the Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) paradigm
• Provide security techniques and expertise to ensure the infrastructure and software services meet specific security standards.
• Managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes
• Designing, implementing and managing flows for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), of important infrastructure services (i.e. logging, monitoring and alerting)
• Participate in the entire Software development lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Writes business logic, presentation logic and data logic based on the domain of specialization.
• Develop high-quality reusable code and libraries that adhere to IMT’s system architecture principles.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Abide, Learn and actively engage in the proposition of new technologies and best practices to increase productivity and efficiency in the software development process.
• Collaborating with other developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Work closely and effectively with the Product team to ensure delivery against agreed priorities with the aim of meeting current and future customer needs.
• Actively participate in systems/projects scoping, effort estimates, designs and engagement of development partners as part of the development and business teams’ processes.
• Comply with all relevant policies, quality controls, procedures and application architecture principles by applying all defined software best practices and frameworks consistent with and supportive of the enterprise application strategy.
• Ensures all coding are committed to the version control system, documented and demonstrated as per the IMT's policies and procedures.
• Developing POCs to demonstrate the viability of new ideas and technologies to support innovation
• Continuously raise IMT standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment
• Provide input into long-range platform requirements and operational guidelines, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement of Platform Service Composability and availability.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field of study.
• 10+ years of experience in software development with strong automation mindset
• Experience using source code management tools.
• Experience with integrations with Telcos/Banks products/systems is an added advantage.
• Agile/Scrum/DevOp certifications are an added advantage.
• Proficiency in software construction; software testing; requirements engineering; software engineering process; software design; software configuration management; software quality management; and software maintenance disciplines.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of coding languages including .NET, Ruby, Java, C#, C++, PHP, JavaScript, python, React.js and/or Swift.
• Cloud-native architectures, including public cloud PaaS / IaaS, microservices architectures, API
• Experience with agile software development, modern DevOps practices and short release cycles
• Experience in High availability, Scalable software architecture design and implementation
• Experience in managing relational databases (SQL and NoSQL databases)
• Experience with MQ systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, PubSub, etc.)
• Experience in building solid CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to work independently with little supervision
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills - both written and oral. Comfortable communicating cross-functionally and across management levels in formal and informal settings
• Familiar with Github, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana is a plus

Academic / Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Networking, Information Technology, Telecom and any other related field.

Working Experience Required

• A minimum of 10 years of working experience in Software Development