Software Engineer at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Overview

• Oversee the development and implementation of new software systems
• Update existing software and conduct feasibility studies on new software systems
• Function as lead developer, guide application coding, create reports, and mentor the junior developers
• In-depth knowledge of programming languages and working knowledge of project management
• Ensure timely delivery of projects and tasks.
• Update software development standards and advice on best practices

Key Responsibilities

• Meeting with project stakeholders to discuss software projects.
• Effectively manage a development team
• Conducting feasibility studies for software systems.
• Designing new software programs, websites, and applications.
• Assigning tasks to junior developers such as coding, testing, debugging, and analytics.
• Writing advanced programming code.
• Reviewing updated software codes.
• Ensure that development standards, policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Drive change to implement efficient and effective strategies as advised by management.
• Ensure that all software developed within your team satisfies the business requirements as specified
• Managing project timelines and tasks.
• Writing development reports.
• Creating technical documents for new software programs.
• Training staff on software use.
• Working on complex bug fixes
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Lead Software Engineer

Qualifications & Experience
Mandatory

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline
• 6-10 years of relevant software design and development experience
• Prior product development experience
• Experience with software architecture principles, requirements and interfaces, and software systems engineering experience
• Has executed several software projects

Desirable:

• Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline
• Up to 6 years of professional programming experience
• Relevant professional certifications

Skills / Competencies:

• Proficient in business critical and mission critical software development
• Knowledge of automated testing
• Advanced knowledge of software development tools, such as Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL server management studio etc.
• Knowledge of source code control tools
• Knowledge of code review using PR (Pull Request)
• Experience with cloud technologies, such as Azure and AWS
• Good knowledge in big data technologies such as, Hadoop, Hive, and Pig, Cloudera, or large data warehousing initiatives
• Knowledge in building cloud-native applications using Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages including JavaScript, HTML5, C#, Java, SQL, and PHP.
• Knowledge of system frameworks including .NET, Git, AngluarJS, and GitHub.
• Experience creating and maintaining databases.
• Experience working with Agile development technologies.
• Experience with systems deployed on Unix/Linux/Solaris environments.
• Provide overall team guidance and fix all escalations.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment
• Experience with software architecture principles, requirements and interfaces, and software systems engineering experience
• Experience in Devops practices such as, Containerization and GitOps
• Project management skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Generic Skills:

• Ability to make sound and logical security judgments.
• Demonstrated leadership and personnel/project management skills.
• Good understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Able to conduct research into issues as required

Application Closing Date
11th April, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Cover Letter and CV in Ms Word and PDF to: contact@gvapartners.com and peteru@gvapartners.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.