Job Title: Developer Interns
2 Posts
Description
We are an international training and consultancy organization offering technical training and education services designed for individuals, and organizations working in the agriculture, climate change and environment; disaster management; education; food and nutrition; health; humanitarian relief; logistics and telecommunication; recovery and reconstruction; safety and security; water sanitation and hygiene sectors .
Description
We are an international training and consultancy organization offering technical training and education services designed for individuals, and organizations working in the agriculture, climate change and environment; disaster management; education; food and nutrition; health; humanitarian relief; logistics and telecommunication; recovery and reconstruction; safety and security; water sanitation and hygiene sectors .
Allowances: The starting allowances for these positions is KES 15,000.
- Writing specifications, designing, building (developing), testing and implementing (installing a program into production) programs.
- Breaking down program specifications into their simplest elements and translating this logic into a programming language.
- Provide innovative solutions to complex business problems, interface with clients and gather business requirements and objectives, translate the clients’ business requirements and objectives into technical applications and solutions.
- Establishing a detailed program specification through discussion with clients, clarifying to clients what actions a program is intended to perform.
- Working as part of a team, which may be established purely for a particular project, to write a specific section of the program
- Testing sample data-sets to check that output from a program works as intended
- Reacting to problems and correcting program as necessary, devising possible solutions to anticipated problems
- Evaluating and increasing program's effectiveness, adapting program to new requirements if necessary
- Conducting user acceptance testing to ensure a program can be used easily, quickly and accurately
- Writing detailed documentation for the operation of a program by users and computer operators
- Reviewing , updating, repairing, modifying and developing existing IRES information systems
- Customizing existing IRES programs to clients’ needs and specification.
- Presenting ideas for system improvements, including cost and writing prospective proposals
- Maintaining IRES and clients’ systems once they are up and running
- Consulting manuals, periodicals, technical reports, attending seminars and workshops to learn new ways to develop programs, and for continuous improvement of existing skills and knowledge
Qualifications
- A degree in computer science, software engineering or any other related field
Knowledge and Skills Required
- Excellent Ajax skills (mandatory)
- Excellent PHP programming skills
- Strong skills in Java
- Proven experience in developing mobile applications using J2ME
- Proven experience in android development
- Experience with Java development tools
- Knowledge of databases and database systems
- Understanding of Web technologies
- Experience working with common Internet technologies (e.g. CSS, HTML, and JavaScript)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
- Strong ambition to adapt and learn new development technologies
- Knowledge in Content Management Systems (CMS) will be an added advantage.
If you meet the above criteria, please send your application and a detailed CV before 7th January, 2013.
Contacts
P.O Box 104289 – 00101, Nairobi
Email: jobs@indepthresearch.org