Senior Application Software Developer

RS2; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

RS2 offers secure payment services and related software solutions for tier-1 financial institutions worldwide. As a Senior Application Software Developer, you will contribute to design, development, maintenance, and QA across a range of products, collaborating with analysts and managers to fulfill client requirements.

You will participate in the full SDLC, write unit tests, document solutions, and optimize performance and scalability while taking on project leadership when needed.

Qualifications

• Degree in computing or equivalent qualification.
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in software development.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire application life cycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Build and perform unit tests.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Clearly document solutions for all stakeholders.
• Optimization of applications for maximum performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with other team members to establish objectives and design functional requirements.
• Analyse, design and document new requirements.
• Perform under pressure and have the ability to deal with and solve problems quickly and accurately with limited supervision.
• Taking lead on projects when needed.

Skills

Software life-cycle processes

Distributed systems (Kafka)

Teamwork

Time management

English communication

Education

Degree in computing

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker

Spring Boot

PL/SQL

SQL

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

RS2 offers secure payment services, payments software and managed services to clients in over 35 countries. The company upholds the highest industry standards and RS2’s in-house designed payments solution is a software of choice by many of the world’s leading and most innovative banks and financial institutions.

About the Role

As a Senior Application Software Developer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining first class solutions for tier 1 financial institutions around the world. Forming part of a large team of experienced professionals you will be participating in different areas of the software development life-cycle and specialize in a range of different areas from design, development, maintenance and quality assurance of our products and services. Liaising with different parts of the business, you will be dealing with Business Analysts, Project Managers and other internal functions in order to fulfil client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire application life cycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Build and perform unit tests
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Clearly document solutions for all stakeholders
• Optimization of applications for maximum performance and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members to establish objectives and design functional requirements
• Analyse, Design and Document new requirements
• Perform under pressure and have the ability to deal with and solve problems quickly and accurately with limited supervision
• Taking lead on projects when needed

Qualifications

• Be in possession of a degree in computing or a similar recognized qualification
• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in software development

Required Skills

• Have good knowledge of software development life-cycle processes
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure) and containerisation (e.g. Docker)
• Experience with working on multiple Java frameworks and have a good knowledge of the different frameworks available particularly in Spring and Spring Boot
• Has experience working with PL/SQL and SQL
• Has experience working with RDBMS Databases, ideally, Oracle and PostgreSQL. (Knowledge of NoSQL databases will be considered an asset)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems such as Kafka
• Must be meticulous, methodical and accurate in the completion of tasks
• Experience in designing and developing scalable software
• Able to work in a team
• Have strong organisational and time management skills, able to prioritize across different tasks and meet deadlines as per business exigencies
• Strong communication and writing skills in English