Summary
Date Posted: 23rd January 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time , Currency: Ksh

JOB DETAILS:
Metropol was established in Kenya in 1996 as a business Information and credit management company. In 2006 Metropol partnered with GCR to provide credit rating services that enable corporates to raise capital and meet their financing needs. Metropol is also licensed by the Central Bank of Kenya to provide Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) Services to ALL banks in Kenya. Our CRB services leverage full-file credit information sharing and alternative data sources from MFIs, SACCOs, HELB, Utilities, Mobile phone companies and providers of goods and services on credit to help customers improve their access to finance and increase the credit providers’ capacity to lend profitably to more customers.
Full Stack Software Developer
• Job TypeFull Time
• QualificationBA/BSc/HND
• Location Nairobi
• Job Field ICT / Computer
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
• Work with the data team to make the organization’s product smarter and more intuitive to use.
• Work with the broader business team to maintain and help optimize existing systems.
REPORTS TO: Head of Software Development
Duties & Responsibilities
• Develop software application and integration solutions, generally for the business units. Solutions include enhancements and interfaces, functions and features.
• Work on mission-critical, complex enterprise-wide applications.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Compose solutions that incorporate RESTful Web components,
• Work with NoSQL data frameworks, and large–scale database systems to drive insights from vast amounts of structured and semi-structured data.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Engage with business analysts to comprehend client challenges, prototype new ideas and new technologies, and help to create solutions to drive the next wave of innovation.
• Maintain integrity and organization ethics.
JOB SPECIFICATION
Academic, Professional & Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or similar.
• 3+ years of experience with software design, implementation, and testing
• 3+ years of experience with using best practices and design patterns for writing clean, reusable, and highly organized code
• Experience with developing service APIs for external consumption
• Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles
• Experience with project and issue tracking tools (JIRA)
• Experience of Agile Scrum / Kanban framework
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git Technologies
• HTML / CSS / JavaScript
• Java / Spring framework / Hibernate / JAVA RESTful web services development
• Python / Django framework / Django Rest Framework
• Apache Tomcat, JBoss, or Jetty
• XML, JSON
• Linux / Unix
• MySQL, SQL Server, Mongo DB, Redis and PostgreSQL
Desirable Skills
• Communication Skills
• Excellent time management, organizational skills and strong problem solving skills
• Good written and communication skills and high attention to detail
• Ability to acquire knowledge to make process improvement recommendations

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Job application procedure
Qualified Candidates can send their CVs to hr@metropol.co.ke