Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 01, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Longhorn Publishers PLC is a leading publishing company specializing in educational and leisure Publications and Language Services for the Eastern & Central African region, with subsidiaries in Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Longhorn has a business presence in Malawi, South Sudan and Zambia.
The holder of this role will be responsible to the Head of IT & Product Development with the chief responsibility of developing and maintaining the Digital Publishing department’s technology assets and portfolio. .

Principal Accountabilities:
• Write clean, scalable and testable code on a known framework.
• Design, document and implement an architecture suitable for all the digital products to scale.
• Scouting the market for talent, recruiting, hiring and onboarding.
• Lead and mentor a team of in-house software developers to build world-class digital products.
• Design and develop a software development process that will be implemented on all software development projects.
• Managing and deployment of staging, pre-production and production environments that ensure release of quality products.
• Managing technical debt for all digital products.
• Running scrums and sprints together with Product Associate.
• Manage platform costs as per specified budget.
• Technical reporting on platform performance and technical teams.

Skills & Competencies:
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with git.
• Deep understanding of architecture design for scale.
• Strong DevOps experience.
• Project management experience.
• Ability to work in an agile environment.
• Team collaboration with in-house and remote teams.
• Good knowledge of MySQL and Firebase database systems.
• Hands-on experience in configuring and maintaining Google Cloud Platform based applications.
• Possess personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and commitment to the company’s mission.
• Demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities and guiding investment in people and systems.
• Negotiation, analytical, presentation & communication skills and attention to detail.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
• 3+ years working experience as a senior software developer.
• Experience in developing for Web, SMS, USSD and IVR applications.
• Active involvement in at least 1 open source project.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Education Experience: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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To apply, send your CV and cover letter and quote the job title on the subject by 15 May 2020.

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