Senior Back End Developer

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

HYBRID ROLE

Analysis and Planning 30%

• Lead the application lifecycle (planning, design, development, deployment, ongoing maintenance), creating user stories and estimates, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• Continuously research, evaluate, and integrate new technologies to optimize development efficiency and application performance.

• Plan and design well-structured, reusable application architecture.

• Introduce and implement best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable systems.

• Participate in project planning by providing accurate estimates, contributing to requirement documentation, and assisting in work breakdown structures for the team.

• Lead the collection and documentation of user requirements, user story creation, estimation, and work plan development, ensuring clear communication of requirements.

• Effectively prioritize, and manage dependencies to ensure timely completion, and switch contexts effectively when the need arises.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to solve problems, make recommendations, and discuss best practices.

• Proactively identify and mitigate cross-functional and user facing risks, adapting as needed.

• Track task and project progress within JIRA.

Developing & Testing 40%

• Lead and participate in software development adhering to project plans, deadlines, and coding standards.

• Develop and maintain high-quality, maintainable systems using efficient and reusable code according to best practices.

• Use version control effectively and according to best practices, as well as backing up other work according to company standards.

• Prepare and maintain comprehensive testing environments with clear examples and instructions.

• Conduct initial testing and assist in developing testing plans to ensure applications meet specifications.

• Implement and maintain automated tests and component libraries and contribute to team best practices.

• Analyze systems to identify root causes of issues across systems, develop workarounds, and implement permanent fixes.

• Deliver thoroughly tested, performance benchmarked, and functionally-compliant work, ensuring readiness for deployment.

• Deploy changes to the production environment following established procedures and supervise more junior team members.

• Oversee, implement and maintain all DevOps processes, including CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code as applicable to the team.

• Take ownership of maintaining up to date and accurate code and system level documentation .

• Collaborate with members of other teams to ensure timely integration between systems.

Reporting & Communication 10%

• Provide clear, timely, and insightful updates on project status, progress, risks, and potential problems to the line manager and stakeholders.

• Prepare reports, manuals, and other documentation related to software status, operation, and maintenance.

• Maintain accurate system and product change logs, release notes and notifications to other teams, according to company standards and team practices.

• Offer expert insights and feedback on queries regarding relevant projects.

• Collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders, by being available on appropriate communication channels with timeous, well articulated responses.

Contribution to the Team

• Take ownership of projects and products, driving successful completion.

• Actively participate in peer code reviews, provide constructive feedback, discuss best practices, and contribute innovative ideas to projects.

• Collaborate with the team, and interface with other teams, to solve problems and ensure successful project and product delivery.

• Lead and mentor the development team, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented environment through coaching, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and promoting best practices.

• Identify opportunities for team growth and encourage skill development.

• Contribute to the recruitment process by providing technical expertise.

Quality Management & Compliance

• Lead the development of high-quality products that meet specifications, user requirements, best practices, deadlines, and regulatory compliance (e.g., FDA, CE, ISO).

• Apply knowledge of the Quality Management System guidelines and its relevant processes to ensure quality and SOC2 compliance in medical device- and other software.

• Ensure all testing adheres to defined specifications and contributes to continuous improvement of existing applications.

• Lead efforts to safeguard information and data in accordance with company policies.

• Keep all supporting documents up to date.

• Assist the team lead in keeping processes relevant and up to date.

Infrastructure and Database Administration 5%

• Design and implement new database structures and content, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.

• Lead the maintenance of database integrity and efficiency through ongoing optimisation strategies.

• Lead data restoration efforts when required, minimizing downtime and data loss.

• Perform advanced and higher risk DevOps and Infrastructure as Code changes responsibly when the need arises.

Role Requirements

Minimum education (essential):

• Matric Cetificate
• Course or Certificate in Programming

Minimum education (desirable):

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or similar)

Minimum applicable experience (years):

8+ years working experience

Required nature of experience:

Software development

Skills and Knowledge (essential):

• API’s

• HTTP

• Microservices

• CORS

• Authentication

• Logging

• RESTful

• Databases

• Analyzing query performance

• Writing queries

• Designing db schemas

• Creating indexes

• SQL

• Development

• Multiprocessing (threading/synchronization/locks)

• Git

• Programming

• CI/CD

• Docker

• Golang

• Queues

• Debugging

• Debug across multiple interconnected systems

• Distributed tracing

• Debug using application logs

• Web browser console

• Postman

• Testing

• Performance testing

• Mocking

• Integration testing

• Unit testing

• Cloud

• Lambda

• Cloudfront

• ECS

• Backups

• EC2

• S3

• AWS / Azure

• Networking

• DNS

• Networking - IPs, ports, subnets

• Other

• Experience with Javascript/ Typescript

• HTML