SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Job Description

The University of Nicosia seeks talented, ambitious, passionate and results focused individuals for a position of Software Developer to participate in the development of innovative, state-of-the-art application systems. This person must have strong appreciation of innovative thinking, improvisation and experimenting. To support new ideas and non-standard approaches.

Responsibilities

·     Writes well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices including source code management techniques

·     Maintains, expands, and scales existing in-house built web applications, mainly UNIC WEB portal for Students, Faculty and Staff, including the Nicky chat bot

·     Ensures efficient functionality and usage of the UNIC Portal

·     Implements and runs QA including functionality testing and code debugging at staging environment

·     Integrates data from various back-end services and databases in the Portal Database

·     Develops and maintains software documentation

·     Keeps up with existing technologies and trends. Makes timely suggestions regarding their application at the University

·     Oversees, trains and coaches junior developers

·     Provides technical support for in-house built applications

Academic Qualifications

·     BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science

·     Professional certifications will ne considered as an advantage

Job-specific skills

 ·     At least 5 years of experience in Software Development including Web development

·     Good knowledge of one of the following development languages / platforms: Java, Microsoft .NET, PHP, NodeJS

·     Experience with Git, TFS, Visual Studio Online, or any other source code management technique

·     Good understanding of software and network security (in particular WEB security in a context of developing secure applications)

·     Good understanding of Software Development life cycle, in particular Adaptive Software Development

·     Good understanding of Cloud Based technologies

·     Strong communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to engage with both internal and external stakeholders

Additional Qualifications that will be considered as advantageous:

·     Good knowledge and understanding of one of cross-platform mobile application development platforms like Microsoft Xamarin or Google Flutter or React Native

·     Experience in native mobile application development (XCode, Android Studio)

·     Understanding of Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Ability to design and develop cloud-based enterprise level information systems and their components

·     Understanding of cloud-based applications conceptual and architectural design, particularly Azure and Amazon AWS

·     Experience with AI cloud based services

·     Experience in database programming and administration, especially NoSQL and cloud based such as Amazon DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Neptune, Kinesis and Athena

·     Other Amazon AWS experience, in particular with such services like EC2, BeansTalk, S3, RDS, SQS, Redshift, CodeCommit, CloudFormation

·     Any AWS related certification (i.e., AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified DevOps engineer, etc.)

·     Understanding of Enterprise application architecture and integration

Personal Qualifications

·        Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to deal effectively with staff, faculty and students by phone, e-mail band in person

·        Self-starter with the ability to initiate tasks

• Highly organized and able to effectively handle multiple priorities concurrently
• Demonstrated experience of working effectively within a team and independently

·        Demonstrated competencies in dealing with work requiring attention to detail

Information and Application

For a formal application, please submit your CV accompanied by a cover letter through our online recruitment system http://vacancies.unic.ac.cy/. up to the 31^st of July, 2021.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.