Senior Software Developer Job at Productive People

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Job Title: Senior Software Developer

Company: Productive People

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND  

Experience: 5 years

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Field: Engineering / Technical   ICT / Computer  

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Productive People was founded in 2014 in partnership with 2 of the UK's leading recruitment consultancies providing contract, retained and permanent recruitment solutions to the global market place.

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Productive People specialises in supplying the most productive people available in all major economic sectors.

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Job description: – Building Applications. – Develop web applications java/php – Execute the company's Mobile Messaging products strategy for the USSD platform. – Contribute to support operational needs, including testing, tool building and bug fixing problems that are impacting our technical and support teams. – Develop USSD applications. – Manage technical relationships with internal and external developers and suppliers on an ongoing basis, with respect to new developments, feature enhancements, preparation of technical specifications and product bug fixes.  – Monitor industry innovations, perform competitive analysis and prepare business requirement documentation – Take ownership for defining and packaging the customer facing USSD suite of products as determine by company's product strategy. – Innovate on building highly scalable and responsive applications. – APIs Architect and implement backend services that will support our web and mobile clients. – Maintain the existing codebase that powers our platform. – Work closely with the rest of the team to bring our features into production.  

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Desired Skills and Experience:

Requirements: – Minimum of 5-7 years experience. – Candidate must have an astute understanding of the international wireless/mobile. messaging industry, players, products and direction of the market with specific knowledge of USSD. – BSc. Computer Science or any related field. (with a minimum of a 2.1) – Computer literate (MS Office, MS Project, drawing packages, wireframe tools and e-mail).  – Foresight, analysis and logic, systematic and orderly planning, attention to detail. – Problem solving skills and analytical abilities. – Highly experienced in USSD & SMS development. – Able to integrate with different APIS SQL/ORACLE database expert. – Able to develop android/windows mobile applications. – Familiar with payment gateways – MPESA payment integrations. – Comfortable working across the full web stack. – Strong debugging skills. – Able to take complex problems and break them down to smaller tasks.  

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Skills/Expectations: – Be absolutely good at what you do. – Be creative, curious and challenge us and yourself with new solutions and great ideas. – Be responsible and able to work independently as well as collaborate across the team and organization.   – Manage and implement the presentation (website), billing, download/delivery and reporting etc. of the USSD products. – Excellent communication skills are important; candidate will be required to operate across multiple functional areas (operations, business development) including external partners and customers. 

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