Mar 1, Savannah Informatics Web Developer Jobs in Kenya

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Savannah Informatics Web Developer Jobs in Kenya

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled senior web developer who will be responsible for designing and developing web applications for our company. You will be collaborating with a team of other developers, designers, and product managers to create, maintain, and update our web applications.

You will ensure that the web applications are robust and easy to maintain. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design and quality products is important.

Responsibilities

This individual will be responsible for:

  • Translating a high-fidelity prototype into a format that can be rendered on a web browser with exact behavior and look. Knowledge of HTML, JS, and CSS is mandatory, and familiarity with UI libraries is required for easy manipulation of UI components.
  • Understanding the basic structure of how backend APIs work, especially of how RESTful and GraphQL APIs work in order to connect them to a set of screens. This would be required to connect to multiple backend services to screens to meet system requirements.
  • Writing software unit tests using automated testing frameworks with an emphasis on getting maximum code test coverage (100%) and writing end-to-end tests that verify that the set of screens created is working as expected.
  • Ensuring that the program is up-to-date with the latest programming technologies
  • Maintaining healthy CI/CD pipelines to run tests, linting and managing deployments of code for UAT purposes and also for production purposes.
  • Actively participating in the daily standups with a clear understanding of the business goals, software requirements and ability to clearly communicate the progress being made with one’s tasks.
  • Coordinating your work to ensure that delivery of work is based on the team’s, clients’ and stakeholders’ expectations and within sprint duration with clear source code documentation of one’s work.
  • Must be able to carry out brainstorming sessions with the team to discuss how certain features could be improved and/or implemented.
  • Gather and refine user specifications and requirements by analyzing technical needs and requirements
  • Identifying problems uncovered by customer feedback and testing, and correcting or referring problems to appropriate personnel for correction.
  • Should have knowledge of performance monitoring and be able to carry out tasks to improve the efficiency of code.
  • Employing the use of scientific debugging skills to quickly identify and fix issues that affect users’ ability to use any of the company’s web applications.
  • Conferring with teams to resolve conflicts, prioritize needs, develop content criteria, or choose solutions.
  • Staying plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends through education, study, participation in conferences, workshops and groups, and applying them to operations and activities in your workflows.​

    Skills

  • Familiarity with automated testing tools such as Jest, Jasmine and Cypress.
  • Able to implement authentication and authorization within web applications for proper role-based access.
  • Familiarity with RESTful/GRAPHQL APIs.
  • Familiarity with agile software development for delivery of software ie Scrum/Kanban.
  • Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and development tools such as Grunt, Webpack, NPM, Yarn etc.
  • Familiarity with code versioning tools and descriptive commit messaging i.e. git
  • Adequate knowledge of relational database systems, Object Oriented Programming and web application development
  • Hands-on experience with web developer tools, network diagnostics and network analytics tools
  • Basic knowledge of the Search Engine Optimization process.
  • Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
  • A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
  • High degree of independent judgment with the ability to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them.
  • Able to solve complex problems via the use of first-principle thinking.

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Savannah Informatics Web Developer Jobs in Kenya

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