Apply for Vacancy for Web Developer at United Nations University in Japan. The deadline for this job is 31st May 2021.

Job description

As part of the Software Engineering team, working in Agile sprint iterations, the web developer will deliver high-quality software solutions to support and enhance UNU’s operations and intranet ecosystem. Also, the successful candidate also will have the opportunity to contribute to the evolution of the development tools and processes to ensure releases of new functionality.

Duties:

• Design and develop high-quality, performant web applications to support UNU’s operations and processes in an Agile environment where collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement are key aspects of the team culture
• Also, take end-to-end ownership of source code throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with different business units to gather requirements and develop requirement specification documents
• Provide estimates for development timeline and resourcing needs
• Work with the team to build, maintain, and improve new and existing intranet/extranet web applications following coding standards and secure-by-design principles
• Likewise, provide end-user support to applications deployed to production
• Identify opportunities and effective ways to automate now-manual business processes to improve efficiency
• Additionally, understand and influence the journey to solutions by considering both off-the-shelf and bespoke alternatives
• Identify decision support enhancement opportunities by leveraging available data from different sources
• Furthermore, participate in collaborative software projects across departments and institutes which create value for the entire University
• Document source code and all development processes, configurations, and solutions
• Similarly, deliver end-user training and share knowledge with internal team members

Qualification:

• 2+ years of experience in web application development using PHP and Laravel framework
• Proficiency with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap or other CSS frameworks
• Also, knowledge of MySQL or other relational databases
• Practical understanding of application and database performance optimization
• Furthermore, familiarity with Agile development tools, processes and principles
• Familiarity with DevOPs practices, tools, and environments, including CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines)
• Additionally, comfortability with Git
• Knowledge of test driven development
• Experience with consuming and building RESTful APIs
• Also, knowledge of web security
• Strong interest in working with data analytics and visualization

Knowledge:

• Infrastructure services (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Also, design patterns in development and platform architecture (e.g., microservices, CQRS)
• Furthermore, content management systems, such as Drupal 9 or WordPress
• Javascript frameworks, such as Vue.js, Node.js, Angular, or React

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