Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 14 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.
We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Software Engineer
Job Requisition ID: JR-28130 Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Job Description
The role of Software Engineer - Senior Web Developer is responsible for the development of high-quality web solutions.
This role requires participation in the development and maintenance activities of software and other digital applications or services.
The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centered software and contribute to developing technical specifications.
This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.
Responsibilities
Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
Work in a DevOps culture
Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business
Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors
Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
Build cloud based functional web applications at an enterprise level
Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the web digital channel/platform
Implement complex Business Features and solutions autonomously
Contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns
Review and refactor code according to coding standards
Refactor complex code to improve maintainability
Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the team’s software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.
In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects.
Drive monitoring and alerting for solutions
Continuously develop skills
Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams' software.
Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the team’s software.
Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s)
Build and test software prototypes
Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers
Mentor and coach developers
Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s)
Create and test software prototypes
Experience & Qualification Requirements
First Degree with a relevant tertiary qualification
4+ years of experience in web application development
Knowledge of, and experience in web frameworks and technologies such as:
.Net Core
NodeJS
Kotlin
Asp.Net Core framework
Angular / Vue.JS / REACT
HTML / CSS/ SCSS/ Sass / Javascript / Typescript
Relational and Document-based Databases e.g., Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, Mongo, Postgres etc.