Developer at BankservAfrica

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As a Developer you are required to analyse technical specifications and design/develop applications based on result of all analysis for internal and external stakeholders and in alignment with strategic objectives and client requirements.

You will engage with the following stakeholders:

Internal:

• Product Managers 
• Enterprise Project Management Office 
• BankservAfrica’ s Service Centre 
• Internal technical teams

External: 

• Financial institutions
• External technical teams 
• Regulatory bodies

Your key responsibilities include:

• Plan and organize work activities according to timelines and targets
• Interpret written business requirements and technical specifications to design and code solutions
• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency, scalable applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance
• Create and maintain technical documentation using defined templates
• Build, unit testing and debugging solutions
• Interface with and assist testing, business, and operations departments
• New product/system development and current product /system maintenance
• Provide assistance with first line support for the Production systems 
• Assist with analyzing and solve problems and incidents on Production, Test and Development environments
• Demonstrate innovative thinking in area of expertise and translate this into business process / solutions / working practice improvements
• Effectively manage the delivery of short to medium term goals
• Foundational understanding of CICD pipelines, Containerization, and automation beneficial
• Show a culture of learning by seeking guidance/mentoring to grow in areas needing attention

QUALIFICATIONS/KNOWLEDGE

• Matric
• IT Diploma or BSc Computer Science Degree
• Microsoft Office suite
• Eclipse, VSCode or similar
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows OS’s
• Core development languages Java, GoLang, ReactJS
• Java Application Servers such as JBoss, Wildfly
• RDBMS incl Oracle, MySQL & PostgreSQL
• Build tools such as Maven & Gradle
• Continuous Integration tools such as Hudson & Jenkins
• Code Versioning Tools: Git
• Issue tracking tools such as SpiraTeam and Bugtracker
• Working Knowledge of Microservices and API Development, XML/JSON 
• Be comfortable with looking into other languages (Stepping outside your core language comfort zone) advantageous

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 1 year’s proven hands-on Software Development experience
• Proven working experience in Java or GoLang development
• Hands on experience in designing and developing applications using Java EE platforms
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Experience in developing web applications using ReactJS, NodeJS, Angular or similar technologies