Software Developer Job at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC)

Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) - Buoyed by a mission to redefine customer experience and be the provider of choice wherever energy is consumed, the Ikeja Electric (IE), Nigeria's largest power distribution network, came into existence on November 1st, 2013 following the handover of the defunct Power Holding Company Of Nigeria (PHCN) to NEDC/ KEPCO Consortium under the privatization scheme of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Software Developer

Job Location: Lagos

About the job

• The ideal candidate will be responsible for assisting in the development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. The Software Developer will work under the supervision of senior developers and contribute to coding, debugging, and implementing new features. The role also involves learning and applying development best practices while collaborating with the development team.
• Building performant web and mobile apps on both the iOS and Android platforms as well as collaborating with the solutions delivery team.

Accountabilities

• Develop software solutions by studying IE information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Maintain clear documentation of code changes, issues, and improvements.
• Collaborate with the back-end development teams to build app functionality according to product requirements and design specs.
• Work with Product and Design teams to deliver intuitive, engaging, and simple interfaces for applications targeting mobile, tablet and web platforms.
• Work with modern tools including Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc
• Complete two-week sprints, and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily stand-ups
• Review and study the functional requirements for new application systems and assess the options for implementation.
• Work closely within a single scrum team to build features in support of the IE products
• Identify reusable functionality to build into common, reusable components that can be leveraged across the application.
• Participate in peer code reviews and pull requests
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential
• Provide information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues
• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Maintain an awareness of new developments in Information Technology and its applications in the electricity sector and, ensure that the company makes the best use of any such developments.
• Monitor department’s performance through Key Performance Measures.
• Ensure provision of adequate resources for various activities of the department.
• Comply with Quality Management System / Occupational Health & Safety requirements including objectives and applicable regulations relating to assigned jobs.
• Perform other duties as requested by the Lead Enterprise Applications and senior developers.
• Assist in Carry out any other duties as requested by the Head of Department.

Minimum Requirements

• Master's / Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science
• 0-3 years of experience in implementation of IT application systems, preferably in an electricity utility.

Specialization:
Full stack (Web and Mobile App):

• Experience in developing mobile and web application
• Good knowledge in front-end technologies, including JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 and third-party libraries such as React Js, React Native, jQuery and LESS
• Good knowledge of server-side programming languages like NodeJS
• Familiarity with DBMS technology, including SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB and MySQL and caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcached and Varnish
• Strong knowledge of UI/UX and basic prototype design
• Good knowledge working with IIS, Nginx or Apache servers with a solid background in Linux

Java EE:

• Good experience in architecting and developing complex n-tier Java EE applications, designing and developing applications using JSP, Servlets, Spring Core, Spring MVC and JavaScript, ORM Frameworks (e.g., Hibernate) and Java Development IDE (e.g., Eclipse), Subversion.
• Good knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases like Oracle. SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB.
• Good knowledge with large and disparate data set.
• Creating Web Services and RESTful services with Web API. Familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems.

Technical Competencies:

• Basic knowledge of web development (front-end and back-end).
• Familiarity with debugging and testing tools.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
• Basic understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with database management systems.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Eagerness to learn and apply new technologies.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented environment.