Career Opportunities at Kofa

Responsibilities

• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
• Compile and analyse data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Define and communicate technical and design requirements
• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future
• Learn about new technologies and Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
• Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience in a peak performance organisation, preferably a tech startup
• Product company experience
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, C# and operating systems may be required.
• Experience with Ruby, Laravel, Django, NodeJS, Spring or Express frameworks
• In-depth understanding of application development (web and mobile)
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Experience with SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL or Oracle database systems
• Knowledge of SOAP, REST API and microservices architecture
• Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Experience with application development and deployment on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience using formal software management and source control tools (JIRA, Confluence, Git, SVN, Bitbucket etc.)
• Self-motivated, curious, creative and passionate about technology with the ability to learn new technologies as needed
• Strong communication skills, good interpersonal skills and ability to be a team player in an agile environment
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organisation long-term
• Knowledge and experience with compliance and data security

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Responsibilities

• Design a framework for creating apps that grows with the need of the company
• Develop features to enhance the user experience and build reusable code for future use and shared among front end applications
• Use a variety of mark-up languages to develop both web and mobile apps and also enhance applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with team members (backend developers, product manager etc.) and other stakeholders on larger projects
• Understand and promote usability best practices
• Bridge the gap between graphic design and technical implementation
• Maintain brand, layout and graphic consistency throughout design
• Assist in the development of applications and features for both internal and external use
• Take ownership of the overall direction and architecture of the front-end, recommending whatever frameworks or libraries are relevant
• Shape the direction of the product by participating in feature scoping sessions

Nice to have:

• Experience working with of microservice architectures
• Experience in a peak performance organisation, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree
• 4+ years hands-on web development experience and 2+ years hands-on mobile app development experience required
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, Dart and Bootstrap
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React Native, ReactJS, VueJS, AngularJS, Node, ES6+)
• Experience in mobile development using any of these tools (Flutter, Ionic, React Native, Android Studio, XCode etc.)
• Experience in graphic design applications and mock up tools (Adobe Illustrator etc.)
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, PHP, JavaScript/NodeJS, Python, C#, C++ etc.
• Experience using formal software management and source control tools (JIRA, Confluence, Git, SVN, Bitbucket etc.)
• Self-motivated, curious, creative and passionate about technology with the ability to learn new technologies as needed
• Strong communication skills, good interpersonal skills and ability to be a team player in an agile environment
• Experience in data visualisation and creating of dashboards is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organisation long-term