Backend applications developer Job Career at National Social Security Fund (NSSF)

JOB TITLE: BACKEND APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER (1 Position)

REPORTS TO: APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

DEPARTMENT: TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS

JOB GRADE: D2

Job Purpose:

Works alongside front-end developers and programmers to create comprehensive digital solutions for business needs.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Build and maintain web applications
• Monitor the website to ensure they are scalable and that it can still function when hit by large loads—be that traffic or demanding scripts.
• Maintain and test existing back-end elements to ensure they are as fast and efficient as possible.
• Assess the efficiency and speed of current applications.
• Write high-quality code and develop functional web applications.
• Manage hosting environments.
• Conduct troubleshooting and debugging activities.
• Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Support security and data protection.
• Design and implement data storage solutions.
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features.

Education Requirements:

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

Work Experience:

5 years of Application Support in a medium to large corporate entity. At least one year of devOps experience is an added advantage.

Key Competences:

• Proactivity & Innovation
• Getting Work Done
• Relationship Building
• Communicating and Influencing
• Resilience & Resourcefulness
• Thinking and Problem Analysis
• Research and investigation
• Business process and project management
• Risk and control
• Data collection and analysis
• Problem Solving
• Computer-aided auditing techniques

Interested individuals should click https://forms.office.com/r/yY81sy7z2h to fill out the application form and also send copies of their application letter, curriculum vitae and academic qualifications, addressed to the Chief of People and Culture to recruitment@nssfug.org by Friday 26th August 2022.

Women are encouraged to apply. Please note that canvassing or lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification of the candidate.