Information technology, software development, data Jobs in Kenya

Roles and Responsibilities

• Guide and contribute to business requirements gathering by ensuring clarity, in collaboration with the Business Analyst
  

• Design, architect, develop and test SwitchLink 's Product and services as part of Scrum agile methodology.
  

• Maintain and support SwitchLink software, tools and platforms.
  

• Ensure secure coding is done and secure coding practices are adhered to, to protect SwitchLink 's data, Clients Data and Personally Identifiable information
  

• Implement SwitchLink's devops practices for all projects e.g., repo& registry commit, pipelining, code review, security testing etc
  

• Evaluate and improve existing products and solutions, by researching new and alternate technologies and designs.
  

• Continuously improve the effectiveness of the development team through advancing the development pipeline, tools and software development practices.
  

• Develop Unit test for developed code.
  

• Engage with QA to ensure complete testing.
  

• Do peer code review.
  

• Contribute to Devops automation in testing and code analysis.
  

• Lead a team of engineers and non-engineers towards a common goal.
  

• Work as part of a project team, delivering tasks timely and with quality feedback to the project manager/scrum master.
  

• Ability to manage a project with a small and remote project team.
  

• Use various team collaboration tools.
  

 

Skills and Experience

• 4-6 Years’ Programming experience in a Software & Technology enabled industry.
  

• 3 years of experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available, distributed systems.
  

• Strong knowledge of C#/ Javascript – Vue.js, react.
  

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
  

• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS) and standard network architecture components such as load balancers.
  

• Good troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
  

• Experience writing software using automated testing practices such as TDD, unit tests, and integration tests.
  

• Strong command of version control usage with proper Git flow usage
  

• Experience working with CI and CD workflows with associated tools eg jenkins, azure devops , circleci etc
  

• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes a strong plus
  

• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus
  

Academic and Professional Qualifications

• Bsc Computer Science/IT or any other relevant degree
  

• Scrum Fundamentals or equivalent
  

• Scrum Master Certification Added advantage
  

Competencies

• Very good programming skills
  

• Very good quality assurance and analysis
  

• Good team leadership skills
  

• Good project management skill in an agile setup
  

• Very good customer service and engagement skills