Jobs at Cellulant in Kenya-Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer

Duty Station: Nairobi, Kenya

Responsibilities:

• Develop software and maintain the current systems
• Improve/ tweak existing applications
• Technically support the team lead in design of software solutions and systems
• Coding
• Systems administration which includes monitoring core systems and maintaining optimum system operations
• Product research on new products and new software
• Develop application support documentation to explain application of new products and systems changes
• Product Development and testing the new products
• Software development and support responsibilities in order to ensure the customer’s satisfaction
• Instills customer confidence in the company’s technical solutions and product capabilities.
• Contribute to translating customer system and software requirements into software specifications in support of solution design.
• Designs and develops internal and external business systems/applications, systems interfaces, databases, reporting, or business intelligence systems, as required to deliver new systems functionality supporting corporate business objectives.
• Will work under the guidance of the team lead on complex projects.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Provide on call and after hours support as required
• Maintain technical skills and expertise through continuing education and training.
• Collaborate/Partner with other teams
• Support on successful delivery of systems enhancements.
• Contribute to and work to meet project schedules by providing accurate estimates of effort required for development deliverables, by providing updates on project progress to team lead, and by escalating issues that might affect project success to management.
• Hardware setup and maintenance

Competencies;

• A degree in IT or Computer Science.
• experience in building web-applications
• back-end automation solutions and daemon applications
• high level of detail
• Good organization, planning and focus.
• well-developed programming
• web development skills


Skills;

Advanced exposure in:

1. Java
2. Php,
3. Jsp,
4. C# or C++ .
5. Database knowledge in:
6. MySQL,
7. pstgress,
8. msSQL
9. Oracle.

How to Apply:
All interested candidates are requested to submit their CVs and a convincing cover letter to jobs@cellulant.com

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application Deadline: 14th Oct 2013