ICT officer II (software development – backend)

Employer

Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA)

Number of positions

4 positions

Application period

1 September 2026 to 14 September 2026

Duties and responsibilities

The ICT Officer II will be responsible for the following:

• Participate in the analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of secure and scalable backend applications, web services and microservices.
• Develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot, including RESTful APIs, GraphQL schemas, queries and mutations.
• Integrate internal and external systems using Spring Cloud OpenFeign, APIs, RabbitMQ and other asynchronous or event-driven communication mechanisms.
• Design, develop and optimize PostgreSQL databases using SQL, indexing, Spring Data JPA and Hibernate.
• Implement backend security, caching, testing, API documentation and performance optimization using technologies such as:
  • Spring Security
  • OAuth2
  • JWT
  • Redis
  • JUnit
  • Testcontainers
  • Swagger/OpenAPI
  • Postman
• Use Git-based repositories, CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployment environments.
• Prepare technical documentation.
• Perform any other official duties assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

Applicants must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following fields from a recognized higher learning institution:

• Computer Science
• Software Engineering
• Information Technology
• Information Systems
• Computer Engineering

Candidates must also possess practical project experience or a demonstrable software development portfolio.

Required technical knowledge and experience

Candidates should have:

• Strong proficiency in Java 21 or above.
• Strong knowledge of modern object-oriented programming.
• Backend development experience using Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA and Hibernate.
• Practical experience with:
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Spring Cloud OpenFeign
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Asynchronous processing
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Git
  • Basic CI/CD pipelines

Added advantages

Knowledge of the following technologies will be an added advantage:

• Kubernetes
• Redis
• Spring Security
• OAuth2
• JWT
• JUnit 5
• GraphiQL
• Postman

Remuneration

PPRA 5