Backend Software Engineer at SONARWA Life Assurance Company Limited

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Company Profile

SONARWA Life Assurance Company Limited (SONARWA LIFE) is a public limited liability company registered under the laws of Rwanda and licensed by the National Bank of Rwanda to transact the business of life assurance and pension management. The company is looking for a competent and experienced person to take on the role of a Backend Software Engineer.

Title: Backend Software Developer

Location: Kigali

Department: IT

Position: Backend Software Developer

Reports To: Head IT

Job Description

As a backend software developer, you will be part of a dynamic team responsible for building new digital services for SONARWA Life customers – both internal and external. You will be involved in the development process from inception to production and beyond. You are a highly motivated individual, willing to learn and be part of organizational transformation journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating with frontend developers, who work on client-side interfaces, to design and implement web and mobile applications.
• Writing clean, efficient and scalable code using programming languages, like C#, Java, Javascript and Python.
• Ensuring the security and performance of the applications server side logic.
• Developing APIs for seamless frontend-backend communication.
• Integrating with third party services and databases.
• Create and maintaining server and database infrastructure,
• Participate in different team ceremonies – standup, planning, retrospective sessions and code reviews.
• Contribute to the overall improvement of the software development and deployment processes – CI/CD.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies.

Required Experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages – C#, Java, Javascript, Go, Python.
• Experience with web framework, Dotnet, Nodejs, pringboot.

• API Design and development of web service technologies such as REST, or JSON.
• A mastery of understanding of design concepts, software development, and testing.
• Experience writing secure APIs.
• Must be very collaborative and enjoy working in a paired development environment where our communication within our team is critical to our success.
• Experience working with Agile Methodologies.
• Experience with Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented and/or Micro Service Architecture.
• Understanding of Computer Science concepts including Data Structures, Methods, Number Systems, Algorithm Analysis, and Product Development Cycles.
• Experience with SQL and interactions with RDBMS.
• Communication is key to what we do. You need to be a collaborative engineer willing to partake in coding/programming sessions with fellow engineers.
• Ability to learn new programming languages.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Version control using tools like Git.
• Troubleshooting and debugging skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related field or equivalent experience.

If you believe you fulfill all the requirements, please submit your application letter, latest CV, including three (3) referees, copies of degrees & certificates and copy of ID no later than 8 th of October 2024 to the following email address: recruitment@sonarwalife.co.rw Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. Done at Kigali on 03/10/2024.