Lead / Senior Developer at Datafin Recruitment

DUTIES:

• Constructing solutions that conform to industry best practices and standards, including but not limited to:
• Solid design principles.
• Clean architecture.
• Domain-driven development.
• Test-driven development, including unit testing during development before code is deployed for QA and testing.
• Continuous integration/deployment.
• Managed source control.
• Security guidelines.
• Controlling and minimizing technical diversity.
• Supportable by being properly documented and code commented (including "don’t repeat yourself" [DRY] principle).
• Building user-centric solutions and systems that cohere with and serve the company’s wider scale goals securely with 99% uptime.
• Guiding and managing the design and implementation of a comprehensive, future-fit technology system that serves and supports the company’s wider goals, including:
• Contributing to strategies and systems that maintain the effectiveness and efficiency of the company’s technology platforms and systems.

Technical leadership and team management

• Providing technical leadership in the IT team and the company’s.
• Managing the software development team’s delivery, including developing technical specifications and designs, allocating work, reviewing code, and managing deployments, etc.
• Delivering consistently high quality and proactive service.

Performing and developing professionally

• Delivering consistently high quality and proactive service.
• Delivering an affordable and sustainable set of solutions on time, including:
• Estimating work accurately.
• Ensuring code and delivery meet quality assurance standards for accuracy and performance.
• Staying up to date with industry and/or other relevant practices, developments, and trends, including:
• Information Technology.
• Information Networks.
• UX Design.
• Identifying and completing relevant, valuable training and/or certifications as agreed.

Supporting solutions

• Assist as needed and appropriate to identify, triage, research, and resolve production issues.
• Ensure support issues are resolved within appropriate and/or agreed timeframes.

REQUIREMENTS:

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum bachelor’s degree or formal certification in Information Technology and/or Computer Science or any equivalent relevant degree.
• Minimum 5 years of development experience across the software development lifecycle across multiple teams on a path to software architect, including:
• Microsoft stack & environment experience.
• Experience managing the full software system delivery and lifecycle, including technical design, construction, deployment, and support.
• Experience managing a software development & delivery team (at least 3 people).

Advantageous:

• Leading mobile development & implementations at scale (especially across low-connectivity contexts).
• Experience in CRM implementations.
• Experience in UX trends and current design strategies and technologies.
• Fluency in an African language.