About the job
Zabai provides high-quality education for young people in developing countries. The education is provided through e-learning, video lessons and blended learning and it is distributed from a platform specifically created for developing countries. Our focus is on creating measurable results; therefore, all our projects have clearly defined effect goals. We use innovative techniques and tools that reach large target groups, and that speaks to the heart as well as to the mind. We deliver solutions for all platforms, such as desktops, tablets and smartphones.
Zabai is currently a team of 20 persons working out of Oslo, Norway and Yangon, Myanmar. We are now in a process of establishing Zabai Tanzania and have started the recruiting process in Dar es Salaam.
Duties and responsibilities
We are now looking for one or two IT developers who will be a part of our IT team in Zabai. The team is responsible to maintain and develop our LMS environment, including Moodle instance. The role will be working in close contact with the product owner.
The role of the IT developers is to design, implement and test solutions in our LMS environment. The role will be working in close contact with customers and product owners. The role will be administering our two environments and making sure they are operating efficiently and securely. The person will react to issues arising in our environments and be able to investigate/remedy the issue.
Qualifications
Must have:
- Some development experience and a strong interest in Information Technology
- Some experience designing, implementing and testing IT systems/web solutions. Including communication with the end-user and understanding the end-user need/perspective
- Knowledge of system design and architecture
- Knowledge of at least one programming language
- Strong interest in learning and developing within the domain of IT
- Experience with the Linux operating system (preferably Amazon Linux, which is based on RHEL/CentOS).
- Some database experience. Knowledge of SQL
- Basic hands-on knowledge of Git
- Knowledge of agile development/Scrum.
Should have:
- Experience with web development (PHP, HTML, CSS, js / jQuery - ideally with modern frontend frameworks like React or Angular)
- Experience with configuring, maintaining and monitoring AWS services, specifically EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load balancer, VPC, CloudWatch, IAM etc.
- Test planning, test scripting, test execution
- Automated testing
- Continuous integration / Bitbucket pipelines
- REST services integration/experience with utilizing REST API in code.
- Basic experience with Atlassian Bitbucket / Jira / Confluence.
- Experience with configuring, maintaining and using MySQL database.
- Experience working on agile development projects.
The candidate must have advanced English communication skills (written and verbal). This is a unique opportunity for an IT Developer to join a start-up company with a lot of energy. For the right candidate, we will offer a competitive package.
If you have any questions related to the position or want to apply for it, please send your CV and cover letter to: post@zabai.no.
Deadline: 15.06.2021
