Technology Role at DealDey

DealDey Limited is the first E-commerce company in Nigeria and the fastest growing E-commerce company in Africa. DealDey Limited is a daily deals company, providing best discount deals on products and services across the federation.

In line with attracting the best, brightest and most suitable talent to join the Information Technology(Development) Team, DealDey has commence its annual recruitment for graduate to join this department in building a world class Technology through Software Development.

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER/DEVELOPS

The position is highly technical and balanced between engineering operations roles, such as systems configuration management, and systems related software development.  The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can act independently and work well with other team members.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
Transform software designs and specifications into code.
Write unit and functional tests.
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, devise and implement solutions.
Participate in departmental training sessions.
Learn and improve software development skills and stay updated with recent innovations.
Continuously manage infrastructures resident in AWS and Rackspace cloud environment.
Setup infrastructures and add-ons such as servers, load balancers, cdn etc.
Perform routine checks on infrastructures.
Use application performance monitoring tools effectively.
Manage essential development tools.
Write scripts for process automations.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
First Degree in a relevant discipline
Intermediate understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
Intermediate understanding of any other programming language like Ruby, C#, Java etc.
Good knowledge of relational database systems.
Ability to understand complex problems and provide viable solutions.
Ability to understand requirements and implement them in code.
Basic knowledge of building and consuming RESTful APIs in JSON.
Intermediate understanding of cloud server administration.
Intermediate understanding of linux servers.
Basic to Intermediate understanding of containerization tools like docker.
Intermediate understanding of how internet works (protocols, packets, web servers)
Basic to Intermediate understanding of shell scripting.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES 
Oral and Written Communication Skills.
A fast learner.
Good eye for details.
Must be willing to work in a team environment effectively but being an individual contributor at the same time.

Key Performance Indicators
Turn Around Time on tasks
% Task Completion Rate

TO APPLY
To apply, please send your resume with a detailed cover letter to jobs@dealdey.com using ‘DD / Senior Software Developer / DevOps’ as the email subject. Deadline for application is Friday 7th April 2017.

Applications with incorrect email references will not be reviewed.

This recruitment process will be completed within 2 weeks of the closing date of the advert. If you have not been contacted within this period, please assume on this occasion that you have been unsuccessful. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted for interviews.

DUE DATE: 7 April, 2017