Chief Programmer at Telecomz Mobile Stores (TMS)

Telecomz Mobile Stores (TMS) is a start up mobile commerce and mobile payments firm focused on , easing phone users' access to banking, digital and telecom products.Our immediate focus and project at hand is a mobile payment application.
At TMS we believe in offering pioneer solutions and in pushing mobile technologies to its limits. We believe strongly in the word "Possible" and it is the only language we speak and understand!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Programmer

Location: Enugu

Job Description

• We are looking for an intelligent, passionate and focused individual with strong leadership skills and who shares our believes to fill the position of Chief Programmer.
• The ideal candidate must be a full stack developer with robust experience in building complex web and mobile applications including payment applications.
• He/she will lead the programming team in the development of web and mobile applications that meet stated specifications and will be responsible for ensuring that the organization's technologies are used efficiently, profitably and securedly.

Responsibilities

• Work with the management team to establish organizational culture and drive the growth of the firm.
• Discover and advise on best practices and technologies to be used.
• Develop a consolidated view of the applications, define and document technical requirements based on provided application specifications.
• Design the overall architecture of the applications.
• Produce development schedules clearly defining milestones, timelines and needed technical resources.
• Assign personnel to tasks as per the schedule.
• Align and lead the programming team to achieve desired business outcomes and applications specifications.
• Provide strategic guidance to team members in ways that promote the company’s culture.
• Ensure that project document repositories are maintained and updated.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert and “go to” person for guidance by members of the programming team.
• Foresee and promptly communicate risks while also providing advice on how to mitigate such risks.
• Build QA and security processes.
• Organize and manage Alpha and Beta tests of applications.
• Regularly liaise with 3rd party stakeholders particularly those providing APIs and other technical resources to ensure continued success of the applications.
• Ensure regular, effective communication between the programming team members.
• Drive continuous product improvement.

Skills & Qualifications

• Ability to take full ownership over product delivery and technology.
• Must be a full stack developer with grounded and complete knowledge of the entire web and mobile applications development cycle.
• Experience as a member of a high performing technical team working in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be comfortable and knowledgeable in leading a high performing technical team.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and respond to urgent issues and/or changes in applications. Comfortable managing changing priorities.
• Possess indepth attention to detail supported by excellent written and verbal communication with all levels of personnel.
• Able to collaborate with high energy and focus, while driving team members to achieve results.
• Must be delivery focused, with a strong willingness to perform all tasks required to complete the job and meet deadlines.
• This is a highly accountable role therefore the candidate must possess the ability to drive delivery of highly-complex applications from start to finish. Be a hands on leader, taking active part in the coding and entire development of the applications. You will not just tell others what to do.
• Willingness to learn and innovate in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to work through ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
• Experience building robust payment applications is a must have.
• UX design skills and experience will be added advantages.

Other Information

• Reports directly to the CEO.
• Candidate must be resident in Enugu or its neighboring states.

Application Closing Date
2nd April, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: telecomz.ms@gmail.com with email title/subject  as "Chief Programmer".