Vacancy title:
Lead Software Developer

Jobs at:
Avechi- Ecommerce platform

Deadline of this Job:
24th September 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 7th September 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

We are Avechi are a startup ecommerce platform, looking for a lead developer who will be responsible for analyzing, designing and implementing new ecommerce applications, and managing existing web/ecommerce platforms.
The developer provides technical guidance and feedback to management related to the design, development, and testing to ensure business requirements are met.
Most important, you must have a startup mentality thus be willing to persevere, take ownership and to build things from scratch

Responsibilities for the Lead Software Developer Job

•  Designs, codes, tests, and debugs programs, ensuring business requirements are met and documentation is created and maintained.
  
•  Acts as liaison between IT functional unit and cross-functional project teams, a project team member.
  
•  Follows, and ensures adherence to, the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for consistent development and deployment practices.
  
•  Provides oversight and technical guidance regarding the design and programming work performed by the team of developers.
  
•  Manage the developer team consisting of assistant developers and interns
  
•  Provides day-to-day feedback, work direction and feedback to the management
  
•  Acts as a technical and business systems subject matter expert for the developers and business stakeholders/representatives.
  
•  Ensures compliance with development standards.
  
•  Safe-guards all customer, employee and company proprietary and personal information ensuring customer and employee data is kept confidential at all times.
  
•  Analyzes and evaluates existing or proposed code for maintainability, sustainability and reusability.
  
•  Provide technical support for business systems in response to outages or escalation requests.
  
•  Creates and maintains build processes to ensure successful installation of archives/executable in production systems.
  
•  Performs other projects or miscellaneous duties as requested or assigned.
  

Lead Software Developer Job Qualifications

•  Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent related experience.
  
•  IT function specialty certification(s)
  
•  4-6 years in software development developing and designing applications in various architectures.
  
•  Strong experience in PHP
  
•  Demonstrated functional requirements development and working directly with stakeholders.
  
•  Designing architectures to meet requirements utilizing technologies across application tiers
  
•  Solid understanding of OOP
  
•  Knowledge and demonstrated usage of design patterns
  
•  Advanced understanding of standard front-end development technologies: HTML5, CSS2.1/3, JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, AJAX, XML, SOAP, WSDL
  
•  Working knowledge of development tools, PHP Storm, SourceTree, GIT, MySQL Workbench
  
•  Demonstrated professional development experience with Web Services frameworks and RESTful API standards
  
•  Strong understanding of Linux
  
•  Strong understanding of MySQL and NoSQL
  
•  Excellent grasp of database design and normalization rules
  
•  Direct experience working in Agile software development methodology
  
•  Good understanding of Web analytics and SEO techniques
  
•  Experience extending or customizing existing products/frameworks such as WordPress, Magento
  
•  Strong debugging skills with the ability to reach out and work with internal and external stakeholders to solve complex problems
  
•  Problem solving and time management skills
  
•  Ability to work in both an individual and team-based environment
  
•  Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills
  
•  Detail oriented in the execution and follow-up of work.
  
•  Ability to effectively manage and lead change.
  
•  Takes initiative.