Job Opening At GVA Partners

GVA Partners – Our client is a leading provider of Internet, Mobile and multichannel banking, ATM and card payment solutions to the worldwide financial services industry.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Senior Web Developer

Location(s):          Lagos                                         |           Job Type:              Full-time

Qualification:      BA/BSc/HND                           |           Experience:       4 years

Deadline:               Not Specified

Objective Roles

• We are currently looking for a highly motivated and passionate individual, with a strong interest in software development, to join our BankWorld Internet & Mobile Development team as a Senior Web Developer.
• You will be responsible for providing high-quality software for our Internet & Mobile applications, implementing new business requirements and maintaining existing functionality on the Internet & Mobile components of our client’s retail banking product – BankWorld.
  

Main Responsibilities/Duties

• Designing and implementing new features both on your own and as a member of a feature-driven team.
• Creating client-side branding in a complex rich-client application.
• Assist with the design of these features and their implementation to agreed timelines.
• Following sound software design, process and quality practices.
• Assist with the maintaining and support of new and existing features by liaising with the support teams to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Participating in all facets of team development by actively participating in staff mentoring and personal development.
• Keeping abreast of new technical developments to enhance or revolutionize the product and customer experience.
• Occasionally travel to customer sites to support the deployment of new features, and to other company offices. (Must be willing and able to travel up to 40% of their time).
• Occasionally provide out of hours support for the product.
• Any other related tasks as required by the line manager.

Essential Skills

• Honours Degree or Diploma in Computer Science.
• 4+ years proven experience in modern Web development using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, JQuery & responsive web design (RWD) skills.
• AngularJS experience.
• Strong Object oriented Design & Programming skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills using the English-language.
• High level of attention to detail and strong aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Ability to work across multiple product areas and remain quality and customer-focused.

Desirable Skills

• Experience using Adobe Dreamweaver.
• Experience in a non-scripting programming language e.g. Objective-C/C++/C#/Java on Windows and/or Linux environments.
• Experience in writing multi-threaded applications.
• Experience with modern Client/Server architectures.
• Experience with distributed architectures.
• Experience with TCP/IP Socket Programming.
• Familiarity with JSON, XML and XPath technologies.
• The experience of software testing and methodologies.
• The experience of software debugging.
• Experience with software systems in the banking sector.
• Knowledge of common design patterns would be a distinct advantage.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Excellent team player, cooperative and flexible.
• Enthusiastic, proactive, and can-do attitude, keen to be involved at all levels of a product.
• Articulate communicator, ability to present ideas clearly and precisely, both written and verbally, with concise attention to detail to peers, colleagues and management alike.
• Good listener, the ability to listen effectively and to consider input from peers, colleagues and management alike.
• Self-reliant, the ability to work without close supervision and address problems in a collaborative environment.
• Good problem-solving abilities with the ability to identify and contribute to solutions for the company in a collaborative environment.
• Strong customer orientation.
• Passion to learn and to work with new technologies.
• Self-motivated.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidate should send their CVs to contact@gvapartners.com andrecruitment@gvapartners.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.