Web / Mobile Application Developer at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Web / Mobile Application Developer

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Full - time

Description

• Develop and maintain applications that can connect to multiple data sources via API.
• Develop and maintain project and corporate websites.
• Evaluate code to ensure it meets industry standards, validity and ensure its properly structure and compatible with browsers, devices and operating systems.
• Develop WordPress plugins as needed to support institutional websites.
• Address and improve any website and mobile app technical issues.
• Update content and create new pages in coordination with Communications Officers.
• Perform any other job-related task as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualification

• B.Sc / HND in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or any other related field with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience performing similar role in a well-structured environment.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with the MERN stack.
• Have experience in app deployment on cloud/on premise.
• Have advanced experience in WordPress development
• Have hands-on experience with JavaScript development on both client and server-side
• Be experience in creating mobile apps with Ionic/React native/Flutter
• Have consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, public-facing web applications.
• Be able to create secure RESTful-based web services in XML and JSON, Javascript, JQuery.
• Be experienced in project documentation.

Benefits
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
18th July, 2023.