Senior JAVA Backend Developer Needed at Financial Systems Company

Vacancy title: Senior JAVA Backend Developer

Type: FULL TIME

Category: Computer & IT

Jobs at: Financial Systems Company

Deadline of this Job: 22 February 2020

Duty Station: Within Uganda , Kampala , East Africa

 

JOB DETAILS:
Our client with headquarters in German is looking for Senior JAVA Backend Developer. The job entails developing and maintaining the company’s application’s backend architecture; ensuring that it meets globally accepted standards and provides for different integrations with other solutions..

Responsibilities & duties
• Develop the company’s platform (java based) in accordance with business requirements
• Align with the product management team about features and priorities
• Take ownership of one or more modules in the company’s architecture;
o Biometric authentication server
o Customize transactional backend (open source, java)
o Development and implementation of an ETL tool and analytics framework (with some
R/python)
• Participate in the full project life cycle from design to go-live and support
• Improve automated testing procedures
• Optimize code after deployment
• Write documentation for the platform and APIs
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development
Efficiency

Academic/Skills
• Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well
• Fluency in English
Work experience
• 5 – 10 years working experience in developing software and coding
• Experience in developing financial software solutions
• Experience with several of the following tools/technologies:
➢ JEE and Core Java,
➢ REST services and APIs
➢ Both relational and non-relational database technologies
➢ AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, RDS)
➢ Netbeans/Postman
➢ GitHub/BitBucket/JiraWorking
• Knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
• Experience in an agile work environment, i.e. source code and build management, testing, continuous integration
• System Performance Optimization
• Application security, i.e. storage and transport layer encryption, SSL

Personality
• Fast thinker/solution oriented
• Ability to work with remote teams
• Self-motivated
• Strong analytical skills & structured approach to work
• Willingness to work long or irregular hours
Team structure
Direct Supervisor
• CTO
Work hand in hand with
• Business Analyst
• Android Developer
• Web Developer
• UI/UX Designer

Job Education Requirements: Job Education Requirements: Bachelors’ degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or any other related field – equivalent work experience will be considered as well

Experience Requirements: Job Experience Requirements: 5 – 10 years working experience in developing software and coding

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Send you application to JAVAbackend@greatugandajobs.com