Associate Mobile Developer at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Associate Mobile Developer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head, Enterprise Systems Engineering

Role Purpose

• Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.
• You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems
• Create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams
• Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions
• Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure system-related products and services
• Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers
• Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or other subject matter area with equivalent IT experience
• 1-3 years of professional experience in software development
• Proven Experience in Mobile Applications
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insight
• Two years experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin, Java and Android SDK
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• A natural knack for collaboratively crafting solutions with users and colleagues.
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• The ability to absorb information. You love getting into the weeds technically, but don't let that distract you from achieving your end goals.
• You are a systems thinker and critical thinker, with experience solving problems at their root cause.
• Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.