JOB DESCRIPTION
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design RESTful APIs
- Work with other team members to develop and test highly scalable web applications and services as part of a suite of products in the Data governance domain working with petabyte-scale data
- Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members
- Use AWS to set up geographically agnostic systems in the cloud.
- Exercise your strong skills & working knowledge of MySQL and relational databases
- Prototype and develop new ideas and participate in all parts of the lifecycle from research to release
- Work within a small team owning deliverables for our web APIs and front end.
- Use development tools such as AWS Codebuild, git, npm, Visual Studio Code, Serverless framework, Swagger Specs, Angular, Flutter, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, SQS, Kafka etc.
- Design and develop dockerized applications that will be deployed flexibly either on the cloud or on-premises depending on business requirements
You’ll have:
- 2+ years of professional development experience using any object-oriented language
- Have developed and delivered at least one application using nodeJs
- Experience with modern web application building libraries such as Angular, Polymer, React
- Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives
- Excellent understanding of HTTP and REST standards
- Experience with relational as well as MySQL databases
- Good experience writing unit and acceptance tests
- Proven experience in developing highly scalable distributed cloud applications on a cloud system, preferably AWS
- You’re a great communicator and are capable of not just doing the work, but teaching others and explaining the “why” behind complicated technical decisions.
- You aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves: This role will evolve, and we’ll want you to evolve with it!
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Job Overview
Location
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya