Terragon Limited, an Integrated New Media and Mobile Content company based in Lagos, Nigeria with presence in Ghana, Kenya, India, UK and Mauritius currently seeks to employ a SOFTWARE ENGINEER. The Group prides itself as a new media business focused on Africa. It has built a strong competence across the new media ecosystem comprising mobile, online and content.
Terragon is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities
- Work through the full life-cycle management, including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing and documentation.
- Create technical test specifications and schedule estimates for new products.
- Contribute to the development of both internal and partner software integration projects, as well as new web and mobile applications
- Maintain and extend existing codebase and libraries.
- Communicate complex ideas with ease, both in person and in writing.
- Provide escalated ticket/incident management for Twinpine/TVL/TML supported applications as well as will participate in defect management, issue tracking/trending.
- Taking leadership in owning issue resolution and driving them to completion.
- Ensuring that incident and problem management processes and procedures are followed and adhered to standards.
- Communicating to end users, engineers, and operations
- Provide performance /capacity metrics and ad hoc reporting of the same
- Provide technical expertise and share knowledge with team as required
- Monitor the application performance and provide technical support as required
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or Electronic, Telecommunications and any Physical science
- 1-3 years working experience in all aspects of web and mobile application development and managemen
- Mastery of at least 5 web technologies and proficiency in several others e.g. JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML5, AJAX, Wordpress/PHP...
- Ex Deep understanding of server-side technologies, web security, cross browser compatibility challenges, mobile development anatomy, sms based stuff
- Great energy and enthusiasm with a positive, collaborative working style.
- Working knowledge of relational database design and management.
- Working knowledge of presentation technologies, including XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Practical experience in writing test scripts for API testing and/or QA automation tools
- Fearless in the face of massive, daunting technical challenges
Application Closing Date:
22rd July, 2014
How to Apply
Interested Qualified applicants should forward their CVs and cover letter within 1 week of this publication to:
[email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.