Software Developer (Kingston, Jamaica) - Digicel

Location: Kingston, JM, WI

Company: Digicel

Digicel Group is a total communications and entertainment provider with operations in 31 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific.
After 18 years of operation, total investment to date stands at over US$5 billion worldwide. The company is renowned for delivering best value, best service and best network.
Digicel also runs a host of community-based initiatives across its markets and has set up Digicel Foundations in Haiti, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Trinidad and Tobago which focus on educational, cultural and social development programmes.               
                                    
Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more information.

Primary objective of the job:
We are hiring Full Stack Developers with strong experience working across the Android stack to build mobile products at scale. As an Android Engineer, you will be tasked with bringing the most technically complex user experiences to life through integration with our back-end services.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to deliver the most compelling products and features for our Android applications.
• Build well architect components for the most complex and ambiguous technical problems.
• Capable of breaking down business requirements to architect solutions using various technologies and platforms to meet business needs.
• Participate in design reviews and code reviews.
• Properly comment code to ensure documentation can be generated.
• When required assist with troubleshooting and resolving production-related issues.

Academic qualifications and experience required:

• BSc. Computer Science or related qualification.
• 5+ years’ experience building Android applications.
• Experience working with large codebases, including API design techniques.
• Experience working with service-oriented architectures and microservices.
• Experience working with designers to implement product designs.
• Experience working with MySQL, MongoDB, PL/SQL.
• Experience working with DevOps pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud concepts and technologies. 
• Experience working with web technologies such as front end frameworks (AngularJS, VueJS, React, Bootstrap, Spring framework), CSS preprocessors, PHP, NodeJS.
• Proficient with Java, experience with Kotlin would be a plus.
• Proficient with version control tools.

Functional Skills:

• Able to manage up and down the organizational hierarchy.
• Excellent technical troubleshooting approach 
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to work under pressure and to tight timelines
• Adaptable and flexible, ability to understand and pick up new technologies
• Proactive and uses own initiative to suggest solutions to resolve problems
• Team player

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