Key Responsibilities

Job Specific

Responsibilities

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Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.

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Write clean code to develop functional applications.

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Troubleshoot and debug applications.

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Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.

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Gather and address technical and design requirements.

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Provide training and support to internal teams.

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Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

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Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features.

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Follow emerging technologies.

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Proactively advice on best practices.

Education, Experience and Required Skills

Educational Qualification

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related preferred

Processes &

Practice

       ▪     Agile

       ▪     Scrum/Kanban/Lean

       ▪     TDD/BDD

       ▪     CI/CD

       ▪     XP

Experience

5-7 years experience

Essential Skills

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Follow Clean Code/Solid principles - Uncle Bob aka Robert C Martin

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Adhere and use TDD/BDD.

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Outstanding ability to develop efficient, readable, highly optimized/maintainable and clear code.

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Working experience in Python is a must.

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Working experience in Kubernetes is a must.

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Working experience in Java is an added advantage.

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Working experience in Node JS is an added advantage

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Strong understanding & working experience in Micro services and Rest APIs

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Messaging (One of RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, ActiveMQ or any such others).

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Mocking (any of the following Mockito, EasyMock, JMock, Spock, Mocha).

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IDE Intellij or Eclipse or Visual Studio or JupyterNotebook

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Build tools (One of SBT, Gradle, Maven).

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SQL Database (One of Oracle, MS SQL Server or Postgres).

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NoSQL MongoDB.

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Ensure all software built is robust and scalable.

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Experience building server-side web applications.

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Understanding of and experience with a range of approaches to testing application code and systems for behavior and performance (any of Geb, Wiremock, Jmeter, Gatling, Sauce Labs).

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An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.

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Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.

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Knowledge of the git version control system.

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Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.