Associate Mobile Developer at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Associate Mobile Developer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head, Enterprise Systems Engineering

Role Purpose

Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.
You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.
Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
Maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems
Create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams
Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions
Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure system-related products and services
Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers
Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or other subject matter area with equivalent IT experience
1-3 years of professional experience in software development
Proven Experience in Mobile Applications
Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insight
Two years experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin, Java and Android SDK
Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
A natural knack for collaboratively crafting solutions with users and colleagues.
Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
The ability to absorb information. You love getting into the weeds technically, but don’t let that distract you from achieving your end goals.
You are a systems thinker and critical thinker, with experience solving problems at their root cause.
Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives.