Software Developer - DevOps

About the Role

Chedid Capital Group is a leading investment group in the (re)insurance industry with an extensive presence of 80-plus subsidiaries, powered by 1,700-plus employees across more than 85 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Through its diverse portfolio spanning (re)insurance, risk advisory, and education, the Group has built one of the industry's most dynamic networks, combining global scale and local market expertise.

Chedid Capital Group is looking for a Software Developer who will be responsible to develop all required core applications, websites, and mobile applications belonging to Chedid Capital. The main function is to coordinate with project management on deliverables, engineer high-level software designs, implement complex and advanced coding operations, as well as coach junior members in the department on advanced topics. The later phases include R&D to introduce big data analytics and AI to mobile applications and core systems, as well as integrations with payment gateways and IoT related to (re)insurance.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer software designs according to specific requirements and up to the required standards.
• Provide best practices for integrations and authentication.
• Deploy a centralized backend application to cater for several frontend mobile and web applications, through an API gateway and customized parameters.
• Implement SSO and apply authentication with several providers.
• Integrate web/mobile applications with other policy issuers in certain lines of business.
• Integrate with health reading devices or telematics systems, to get overview of clients’ health or driving conditions.
• Implement AI to provide insights on policy generation and assessment.
• Integrate with payment gateways and other front office applications.
• Supervise IT projects ensuring successful timely implementation and escalate when required.
• Contribute to Agile project management platform to ensure all changes are recorded and assessed.
• Provide management with progress reports as and when requested.
• Attend meetings to conduct gap analysis to identify new business requirements.
• Participate in developing and enhancing applications’ security, continuity and disaster recovery policies and procedures.
• Design security architecture to ensure data integrity.
• Coordinate with external SOC and pen-testers on hardening and improving application security.
• Supervise development team to enhance performance and conduct trainings on new ideas and concepts.
• Keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of IT and technology for testing and recommendation purposes.
• Document applications with the needed comments for maintaining continuity and sustainability.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or similar field.
• 3–5 years of experience in application development.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of several front-end languages and libraries (HTML/CSS,SCSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Angular), back-end languages (.Net, MSSQL etc.), web service architectures,), and at least one cross-platform development framework (e.g. Xamarin, Flutter, etc.).
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps (required).