Lead Software Engineer at Sifax Group

Sifax Group is one of Africa’s fastest growing multinational corporations with diverse interests in Maritime, Aviation, Haulage & Logistics, Oil & Gas and Hospitality.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• You will lead and manage the department to develop high quality reusable software component, for business-to-business integration, using international best practices and new best-in-class technologies, concepts and philosophy.
• Design, code, test, analyse and manage software programs and applications that drive Go-truck’s strategy, product owners and third-party business.
• In addition to designing software, web applications, and web services, you will also hire, train, and manage staff, create and oversee budgets, and make progress reports to senior management.

Responsibilities

• Support other software developers, analysts, and designers in conceptualizing and developing new software programs and applications
• Assist with planning phases of the Software Development Life Cycle for a variety of projects and prepares/review documents software requirements and specifications
• Conducts research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts
• Recommends, schedule, and performs software improvements and upgrades
• Runs and monitors software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging
• Administers critical analysis of test results and delivers solutions to problem areas
• Generates statistics and prepare and write reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process
• Ensures robust and sustainable enterprise social collaboration architecture for software development by monitoring matrices of the SOA, and fixing complaints/bugs logged by customers
• Assists in the development and maintenance of user manuals and guidelines for ease of use by the client/customers
• Installs software products for end users as required
• Creates and manages Application Programming Interface
• Writes programming scripts to enhance functionality and/or appearance of company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary
• Removes code script from company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary
• Liaises with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems
• Manages and/or provides guidance to junior software developers and research assistants.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree / HND in Computer / System / Electrical / Electronic Engineering / Applied Physics / Computer Science or a related discipline
• 7 years’ experience in a software development function or role
• A Master’s Degree will be an added advantage
• Relevant certification such as ITIL, CCNP, MCP or CCNA, MCTS, OCA, OCP, OSCA, OSCP
• JavaScript and NodeJS experience and knowledge are required
• Experience with microservices and jobs will be a good advantage
• Relevant knowledge and experience in AWS ECS, SQS, S3
• System design patterns (microservices architecture)
• CI/CD, NoSql DB, Telematics, MQTT, Heroku, Docker
• Third party API integrations.

Skills & proficiencies:

• IT product knowledge and IT Service management
• Knowledge of client industry and business
• Experience and knowledge of logistics business
• Clear project goal and a basic understanding of the expertise level required
• Customer service orientation, Database analysis and administration
• Knowledge of help desk support, computer systems and office automation tools (i.e. MS. Office suites) etc.
• Leadership & team management
• Analytical & problem solving and Excellent Communication (written, verbal).

Salary
N400,000 - N450,000 / month.

Application Closing Date
18th November, 2022.