Company Description
Hello, we are **Edify, one of the highest-ranked **IT companies in Costa Rica and Central America according to **Great Place to Work ®**.
We're a consolidated technology services consulting firm specializing in education technology. We deliver unbelievably creative and rock-solid solutions for a wide range of clients, including major corporations, startups, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations.
**At Edify we believe that bored employees make boring products.** Here, there's no such thing. We help our clients design, build and run some of the most interesting ventures in the industry while promoting a warm, friendly and cooperative culture. Work and life should definitely be buddies, so we're serious about cultivating a great work environment.
**Job Description**:
Hello, we are Edify, one of the highest-ranked IT companies in Costa Rica and Central America according to Great Place to Work ®.
We're a consolidated technology services consulting firm specializing in education technology. We deliver unbelievably creative and rock-solid solutions for a wide range of clients, including major corporations, startups, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations.
At Edify we believe that bored employees make boring products. Here, there's no such thing. We help our clients design, build and run some of the most interesting ventures in the industry while promoting a warm, friendly and cooperative culture. Work and life should definitely be buddies, so we're serious about cultivating a great work environment.
**Job Description**:
Role objective: Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, maintaining, evaluating and assuring the quality and performance of specific components of software systems.
Key Roles, Responsibilities and Functions:
- Analyze system defects to find their causes and correct them.
- Analyze together with your team the requirements of the project.
- Ensure that code tests are kept up to date with regards to changes introduced by
the components developed.
- Work with your team to determine data storage, processing and transmission needs
according to the requirements analyzed.
- Design and implement unit, integration and system tests with the help of the team.
- Design together with your team software components integrated into the system under construction or maintenance that implement the analyzed requirements.
- Document technical and process aspects related to your daily work (technical documentation -APIs or READMEs-, report estimates and actual effort -timesheets-, workflow).
- Estimate together with your team the effort required to implement the analyzed requirements.
- Integrate the developed components with the rest of the system (Front End - Back End integration, APIs).
- Program the designed components.
- Perform peer review of the code of your teammates (peer review).
- Follow processes and standards for code handling in repositories.
- Verify compliance with the requirements and the correct functioning of the components developed as specified.
Key Areas of Accountability:
- Achievement of objectives, targets and procedures
- Compliance with project requirements
- Quality assurance
- Compliance with service agreements
- Customer service
**Qualifications**:
Academic Training:
- Technician or Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Computer Science and related or level of knowledge proven equivalent.
**Language**:
- Technical and conversational English level B2+ according to Common European Framework.
Work Experience:
- Minimum experience of 2 years in software engineering.
Knowledge in:
- Object-oriented, functional, procedural and asynchronous programming paradigms.
- Software engineering processes (development cycle and quality control).
- Participation in agile software development methodologies: SCRUM, Kanban, among others.
- Software quality assurance (unit and integration tests).
- Design patterns, good practices.
- Documentation (design diagrams, README. md, API, wiki).
- Experience in integrating services through APIs. (REST, GraphQL)
- Experience in analyzing UX/UI requirements, design tools and best practices
- Internationalization and accessibility
- Responsive Design
- Languages:
- Experience with Javascript, Java
- Experience with markup languages: HTML, XML, YAML, JSON
- Experience with CSS/SASS/LESS
Tools:
- POSIX shell handling.
- Concepts of relational and non-relational databases.
- Code management tools (Source Control). Git
- Dependency management tools such as NPM and Yarn.
- Build Managers such as Grunt, Gulp and WebPack.
- Precompilers such as Babel, TypeScript, Flow.
- Experience with tools for managing continuous integration processes such as Travis, Jenkins and CircleCI.
- Code management processes in repositories such as GitFlow and GitHub Flow.
Additional Information
**Benefits**:
1. 100% work remote from any part in Costa Rica and outside of the country.
2. Monthly connectivity allowance.
