Senior Angular Developer (6 months contract) at Momentum

INTRODUCTION

This is an exciting new position available at Momentum Short-term insurance. This position will challenge software engineering as well as people skills. From a software engineering perspective, you will have the opportunity to solve and design complex integration patterns. Various technologies are used within this space of which the major ones are Angular, Jenkins CI,

Docker, Amazon Web Services, Linux and REST integration. Development challenges will include new software development as well as integrating to current software. From a people perspective you should be able to operate on your own and within a team setup, depending on the projects you will be involved. Knowledge sharing is key to the role and technical guidance as well as mentoring of junior to intermediate developers will be expected.

ROLE PURPOSE

• Design, develop, implement and support technological solutions to meet business requirements in accordance with specification.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND WORK OUTPUTS

• Understand the existing software eco system and application code base
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Angular code
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Effectively collaborate with relevant parties to deliver expected outcomes
• Adhere to Software development processes and best practices
• Ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
• Application Frontend development in Angular, Typescript, HTML5
• Integration into third party systems and software
• Strict adherence to development policies and procedures
• Development of dashboards and reports
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Ensuring that all source code checked into source control system is compiling and properly tested
• Adherence to the principle of longevity of all software that will be deployed or incorporated into systems that are provided by the company
• Test the applications in controlled, real situations before deploying to Production
• Maintain the applications once they are in Production
• Proper and regular backups of all documentation (internal and external software, systems, and integration)
• Ensuring that dependencies on third party software (SDKs, APIs, Libraries, Integration documentation etc.) are checked into source control system or company-designated shared storage
• Proper documentation of DNS entries, IP addresses, passwords etc. for all software and hardware deployed (whether used for R&D, QA, Production or Pilot projects)
• Agile Methodology

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• B.Sc Computer Science, B.Eng [Computer Engineering], or equivalent
• 5+ years of solid professional/commercial coding/development experience in Angular and Full stack (production code standards)
• Proficient in professional/commercial coding experience in Angular Web Development Framework (production code standards)
• Solid coding experience using Angular, MVC, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML5, Angular Material Design (developing and deploying application code)
• Skilled in specification/requirements elicitation for software solutions and new product development
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to explain technical issues in a concise and non-technical manner to users
• Technical writing and verbal communication skills to document and explain models to and between multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work across multiple teams/projects
• Should understand integration via REST API, Logical data modelling using ER diagramming
• Good working knowledge of AWS (Advantage)
• Good working knowledge of Agile development practices
• Good working knowledge of Micro-services / Micro-front ends
• Good working knowledge of GIT
• Good working knowledge of Jenkins

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Please be advised that this role is temporary and successful incumbent will be employed for a period of 6 months.

LOCATION

• The above-mentioned position is currently available at our office in Centurion