Senior Software Developer

Job Location: Ghana: Accra or Takoradi

Working Hours: 40 hours/week

Reports to: Service Centre Manager/Client Services Manager

Salary: Commensurate with qualification and experience

Job Summary:

AmaliTech is looking for a strong and motivated Software Engineer to help build new and innovative products in a wide range of industries.

You will be part of a dynamic, services first team in a client-oriented organisation that is passionate about customer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• With minimal supervision, expertly add features and improvements to products being built
• Collaborate with developers to create functional and cohesive APIs to enhance user experience
• Translate AmaliTech clients’ requirements into conceptual and technical designs and lead a team to meet requirements
• Develop features and improvements to AmaliTech clients’ products in a secured, well-tested and performant way
• Collaborate with developers and engineers, DevOps team, product owners and/or managers, to meet goals and maintain a high-quality standard in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Conduct code reviews with best code review guideline practices and ensure team contributions receive a swift response
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• Recognise team impediments ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions

Requirements

Minimum:

• At least 5 years professional work experience as a developer. Front-end, Back-end or Full stack
• In-depth knowledge of technologies in any of the following: Java, Python, PHP
• In-depth knowledge of JavaScript frameworks or libraries in any of the following: Vue.js, Angular, React
• In-depth knowledge of databases in any of the following: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• In-depth knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming design and principles
• In-depth understanding of scaling applications to handle high data traffic
• Knowledge of DevOps and working in an Agile environment
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs

Preferred:

• Passion for cross-functional collaboration
• Experience in mentoring other developers and helping team members to grow
• Experience with large-scale distributed database systems, storage farms, and/or horizontally scaled request processing fleets
• Experience in identifying, analysing, and pitching business and technical vision for a complicated area within a highly technical domain
• Exceptional customer focus, including the ability to identify underlying features and requirements, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and with efficient solutions lead engineering efforts to meet tight timelines