Software Engineer at Terragon Limited

Terragon Limited, an Integrated New Media and Mobile Content company based in Lagos, Nigeria with presence in Ghana, Kenya, India, UK and Mauritius currently seeks to employ a SOFTWARE ENGINEER. The Group prides itself as a new media business focused on Africa. It has built a strong competence across the new media ecosystem comprising mobile, online and content.

Terragon is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Work through the full life-cycle management, including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing and documentation.
• Create technical test specifications and schedule estimates for new products.
• Contribute to the development of both internal and partner software integration projects, as well as new web and mobile applications
• Maintain and extend existing codebase and libraries.
• Communicate complex ideas with ease, both in person and in writing.
• Provide escalated ticket/incident management for Twinpine/TVL/TML supported applications as well as will participate in defect management, issue tracking/trending.
• Taking leadership in owning issue resolution and driving them to completion.
• Ensuring that incident and problem management processes and procedures are followed and adhered to standards.
• Communicating to end users, engineers, and operations
• Provide performance /capacity metrics and ad hoc reporting of the same
• Provide technical expertise and share knowledge with team as required
• Monitor the application performance and provide technical support as required

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or Electronic, Telecommunications and any Physical science
• 1-3 years working experience in all aspects of web and mobile application development and managemen
• Mastery of at least 5 web technologies and proficiency in several others e.g. JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML5, AJAX, Wordpress/PHP...
• Ex Deep understanding of server-side technologies, web security, cross browser compatibility challenges, mobile development anatomy, sms based stuff
• Great energy and enthusiasm with a positive, collaborative working style.
• Working knowledge of relational database design and management.
• Working knowledge of presentation technologies, including XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Practical experience in writing test scripts for API testing and/or QA automation tools
• Fearless in the face of massive, daunting technical challenges

Application Closing Date:
22rd July, 2014

How to Apply
Interested Qualified applicants should forward their CVs and cover letter within 1 week of this publication to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.