Senior Software Engineer at SW Global Limited - Abuja/Lagos

SW Global Limited - We are one of the largest Information Technology Company to emerge from West Africa with focus on solution delivery for Public and Private Sector Clients. Our market reach for our products have also powered enterprises in the USA, Ghana, Sierra Leon, Liberia, South Africa, Uganda and Sri Lanka.

Our Model provides Institutions with quick and easy access to mission- critical applications that removes the need for the direct total cost of ownership for business applications or expensive ICT infrastructure acquisitions. The turnkey solutions developed ensure cost effectiveness, enhanced operational efficiency and increased transparency.

Join our profound expert and dynamic team in Nigeria for the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Code: SE 0041
Location: Abuja/Lagos

Job Summary

• To develop high quality reusable software component, for business to business integration, using international best practices and new best-in-class technologies, concepts and philosophy.
• You will assist the Head of developer to manage software programs and applications that drive SW Global’s, strategy, product owners and third-party business.
• Hands-on both front-end and back-end development to be able to divide up logic across the full system, implement the plan, and build the whole thing.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers on building software products
• Work with the project team to understand product requirements, Design the product architecture, interfaces and plan customer integration
• Develop internet and distributed software solutions, directs technical aspects of operations related to client accounts or high severity issues
• Ensures robust and sustainable enterprise social collaboration architecture for software development by monitoring matrices of the SOA, and fixing complaints/bugs logged by customers Participate in solution workshops, write technical documentation and engage in continuous delivery and DevOps
• Participates in the evolution of company level software best practices, standards, and policies
• Works closely with other developers and BA team to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
• Collaborates with product owners, technical architects and other software developers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and mobile-based applications and periodically develops enhancements for existing systems
• Liaises with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems
• Manages and/or provides guidance to junior software developers and research assistants.

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related fields with 5-7 years of experience in Software Development or an equivalent of education and experience
• Strong understanding of distributed computing, SaaS, PaaS, laaS is required.
• Passionate for software engineering. The job involves significant investment in research and development.
• An open mindset i.e. a desire to learn and to impact your colleagues and the rest of the world.
• Good understand of developing and running micro-services is a plus.
• Experience in enterprise software development. Certified by at least one of the industry standard certifications.
• Good knowledge of one or more programming languages. Technologies include Java (Frameworks: Spring, Java EE), Kotlin, JavaScript (Framework: Angular, Jquery), python (Framework: Django, Flask), HTML/CSS. Git Versioning tool
• Experience with functional programming languages is an added advantage. We will consider a candidate who can demonstrate a good understanding of other object-oriented languages,
• Experience with web frameworks including PHP Yii/Symfony is an added advantage.
• A very good understanding of one or more relational database management system (MySQL, PotgreSQL, MSSQL Server, Oracle) and/or NoSQLdatabase system.
• Knowledge of and skills to work effectively within an Agile Software development environment (Scrum),
• Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and/or other automated testing skills,
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English

Skills & Proficiencies:

• A good knowledge of developing enterprise solutions on the JVM is preferred.
• Candidate must have a working knowledge of source control tools i.e. git, mercurial, svn.
• Candidate must know how to write unit tests
• A good understanding of build tools and continuous integration is an added advantage
• Candidates should have a good understanding of private cloud infrastructures, preferably Google Cloud Platform, AWS or MicrosoftAzuro
• An understanding of cloud technologies including container technologies is an added advantage
• A working knowledge of Linux.

Application Closing Date
14th August, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: Careers@swglobal.com Using Position Title and Code as the subject of their email application.

Note: SW Global is an equal opportunity employer. Factors Such as race, gender, tribe, religion and other non-performance or productivity related factors do not form part of our recruitment decisions.