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In office (Malaysia)
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Senior
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Full-Time
First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026.
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Our Group Companies. Astro Holdings LTD. Is one of Zambia's largest and oldest private companies. The group is a large and diversified organization with a wide and varied operation base. Over the years, we have completed large scale project tenders.
WHY JOIN US
We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.
We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.
Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
What You'll Do:
Software Development & Solution Design
- Participate in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Define solution designs and system architectures for customer-facing and backend applications.
- Develop systems with scalability, flexibility, and maintainability in mind.
- Collaborate with development teams and product managers to ideate and deliver software solutions.
- Improve software quality through Agile engineering practices, including code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing.
- Prepare and maintain architecture diagrams, technical specifications, API documentation, operational guides, and other engineering documents.
- Troubleshoot defects, enhance existing software, and provide ongoing application support.
- Manage operational applications and databases to ensure system stability and performance.
- Write and maintain effective APIs and technical documentation.
- Provide support during SIT and UAT, investigating and resolving technical issues.
- Conduct system performance management, application vulnerability management, and software release management.
- Plan and execute production system implementations.
Cloud Engineering and System Integration
- Design, develop, and deploy enterprise cloud-based solutions using AWS services, including API Gateway, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, Cognito, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, VPC, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
- Implement serverless applications using Node.js and AWS Lambda, following best practices for scalability, performance, resilience, and cost optimisation.
- Design and implement event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, messaging solutions, and integrations with internal and external platforms.
- Develop secure integrations with third-party services, payment gateways, notification platforms, analytics systems, and enterprise applications.
- Apply cloud architecture principles to improve system availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, observability, and operational efficiency.
- Evaluate and optimise application and infrastructure costs without compromising performance or reliability.
Technical Leadership and Engineering Excellence
- Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting complex production incidents, resolving performance bottlenecks, and conducting root cause analysis.
- Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, code reviews, and engineering design decisions.
- Guide developers on coding standards, application architecture, testing strategies, security practices, and engineering best practices.
- Mentor team members, encourage knowledge sharing, and support the continuous development of technical capabilities across the team.
- Collaborate closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, Project Managers, Infrastructure, Security, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
- Conduct technology benchmarking and industry analysis to recommend suitable technologies and align with the organisation's technical strategy.
- Translate business requirements into practical, scalable, and cost-effective technical solutions.
- Conceptualise, articulate, and advocate the value of technology in solving real business problems.
- Provide technical guidance and recommendations to project managers and stakeholders on critical issues to ensure optimal business outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, engineering standards, automation, and delivery practices.
REQUIREMENTS:
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 6 years of software development experience within Agile teams.
- Strong expertise in developing RESTful APIs and microservices using Node.js.
- At least 6 years of hands-on experience in API and microservices development.
- Strong hands-on experience in frontend development usingReact.js and Next.js.
- Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frontend development practices.
- Experience with UI frameworks and styling libraries such asBootstrap, Tailwind CSS, and Material UI.
- Strong experience in designing and developing responsive, reusable, and scalable web applications.
- Strong experience designing and developing enterprise cloud-based solutions on AWS.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including API Gateway, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, Cognito, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, VPC, EBS, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
- Proven experience designing and developing web, API, and cloud-based solutions.
- Experience developing serverless applications using AWS Lambda and Node.js.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures using services such as SNS, SQS, and EventBridge.
- Proficient in relational databases, particularlyMySQL, including database schema design, SQL queries, indexing, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or equivalent.
- Understanding and experience in developing solutions using application-layer protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP/S, and WebSockets.
- Ability to write automated unit and integration test cases using testing frameworks and mocking libraries.
- Proficient in source code management tools such as Git.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, SOLID principles, and design patterns.
- Familiarity with modern architecture patterns, including microservices, event-driven architectures, stream processing, and real-time analytics integration.
- Strong appreciation of non-functional requirements (NFRs), including scalability, extensibility, reliability, security, and performance.
- Working knowledge of Agile Scrum methodologies.
- Experience implementing CI/CD processes in AWS environments is an advantage.
- Familiarity with modern API design standards, including OpenAPI Specification, is an advantage.
- Experience with Docker and container-based deployments is an advantage.
- Excellent analytical, logical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to plan and execute projects while delivering quality outcomes within agreed timelines.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Kiro, or equivalent solutions to improve productivity, code quality, testing, debugging, and documentation.
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