Job Description

• Application Development
  • To provide, recommend and evaluate various possible solutions and clearly communicate the cost and benefits of the various solutions
  • To design, develop and continuously enhance software applications
  • To document software application to serve maintenance requirements on the system
  • To align system design and development to organisational standards and best practices for security and development
  • To ensure system are robust, available and scalable as needed
  • To perform peer code review
  • To ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
  • To design, develop and manage tools for the creation of structured content and to support in the creation of multi-formatted outputs such as PdF, ePub, HTML and others.
  • To develop tools and programs for managing and transforming structured documents - this may include XSLT/XSL-FO and other DITA/XML transformations.
• Maintenance
  • To maintain software applications and support user inquiries and requests
  • To troubleshoot errors and issues
  • To perform bug fixes and data patching
  • To perform system upgrading and enhancement
• General
  • Innovative and flexible 
  • Able to collaborate with other team members and stakeholders on various projects
  • Able to work independently
  • To plan and budget for software development

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Software
• At least 5 years of software development experience and minimum 3 complete SDLC projects
• Experience in Full-stack development, object-oriented analysis & design, building web applications and familiar with the following technology:
  • Application Tier: Node.js, React.js and Restful Web Services, JSON etc.
  • User interface Tier: responsive user-facing web interfaces for Web and mobile using HTML5, CSS3, Material UI and JavaScript
  • Database Tier: Relational database like MySQL or Object-Relational database (No SQL Db) is required
  • Server Tier: Amazon Web Services (EC2, beanstalk and RDS) along with basic Linux or Windows Server administration.
  • General understanding of RESTful API architecture
• Experience in XML Structure document technologies.
  • Document Databases (eXistDB)
  • Transformations Processors (XSL-FO, XSLT)
  • DITA XML, JavaScript, Web technologies, ePub3, PDF, HTML, CSS.
• Knowledge in Graph Database will be an added advantage.
• Solid understanding of the full web technology stack, including protocols and Web server optimization techniques (e.g HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading/caching)
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Good interpersonal skills