Job Description:

Position:

Associate Software Engineer

Primary Objective:

• As an Associate Software Engineer you will be tasked with delivering software solutions
• ensuring they meet the requirements of our Business Stakeholders and satisfy the quality
• criteria of Technology.
• As an Engineer you will participate and contribute to the standards and processes of the
• overall development practice.

Key Relationships:

Internal:

• Business Stakeholders that present as customers of the Delivery team in which you operate.
• Team members within the Technology team in which you operate and provide technical
• guidance to.
• Architecture, Cloud Engineering and Cloud Ops teams
• Software delivery teams in other countries.

External:

• External vendors and partners working with the Delivery team and other technology teams
• outside of Delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure comprehensive coverage of functional and non-functional requirements in developed
• items.
• Ensure test-driven development practices are followed where possible.
• Ensure full unit testing of developed items, incorporating automated unit tests.
• Collaborate with the Quality Engineers on the development and incorporation of automated
• integration and acceptance tests.
• Documentation of developed items, as per required standards.
• Adherence to coding practices and standards.
• Collaborate with Technology team members within your team and across other teams to
• deliver outstanding results for our business stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Tertiary Certificate/Degree qualification.
• Two years proven digital development and project delivery experience preferable.

Knowledge and Skills:

Essential:

• Full Stack (Must)
• C#, .NET and other server-side development tools.
• Client-side frameworks for web apps :React JS (Must)
• Strong communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Active listening skills.
• JSON and XML document creation and interpretation.

For a client-side specialist:

Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS and other client-side technology and standards.

For a server-side specialist:

• RESTful web services and HTTP standards
• SQL, No-SQL and Indexeddb storage technologies.
• Able to work in a sole capacity or as part of a team.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the development team.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Genuine desire to provide business value.
• Self-motivated.
• Flexible and adaptable to change.

Desirable:

• Development patterns involving asynchronous services.
• Authentication and authorization standards for web services; OAuth and JWT preferable.
• For a client-side specialist:
• Performance considerations for web and mobile development.
• For a server-side specialist:
• Definition, discovery, design and development of web services.
• Performance considerations for web service and data storage development.
• Patient and diplomatic.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to tight deadlines.
• Inquisitive in nature.
• Great sense of humour.

Key Result Areas:

• Quality and efficiency of development activity.
• Contribution to accurate estimates for Delivery of outcomes.
• Contribution to transparency in project status and reporting.
• Contribution to comprehensive delivery to customer requirements.

Sample of Key Duties:

• Participation in daily stand-ups.
• Participation in iteration planning, show cases and retrospectives.
• Consultation with business stakeholders on requirements.
• Contribution to team status reporting.
• Participation in Technology team meetings.
• Participation in DPE team meetings.