Application Developer

Role overview

This role owns the technical roadmap, delivery and governance of Damsun’s custom ERP and adjacent applications. The successful candidate will be a builder: architecting systems, automating processes, and delivering measurable business outcomes — not just maintaining systems. The role reports to Head — Digital Transformation and works cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, Production, Finance and Service teams.

Core responsibilities

Platform ownership & delivery:

• Lead full software lifecycle: requirements, architecture, development, testing, deployment, monitoring and support of ERP/CRM modules.
• Enforce release governance, CI/CD, versioning and rollback procedures.

Application design & integrations:

• Design modular services, APIs, and ETL/data pipelines for cross-platform dataflow (manufacturing systems, POS, finance, e-commerce).
• Manage vendor integrations and third-party connectors.

Automation & AI:

• Build automation frameworks leveraging RPA, no-code/low-code accelerators and ML/LLM tooling to streamline sales, production and service workflows.
• Prototype intelligent assistants/chatops for operational workflows and reporting.

Security, compliance & governance:

• Implement enterprise-grade security, role-based access, encryption, logging, audit trails and backup/recovery protocols.
• Maintain SOC/minimum standards and ensure compliance with data protection norms.

Operational excellence & SLA management

• Ensure system uptime, incident response, root cause analysis and SLA adherence for key modules.
• Establish IT SOPs, runbooks, onboarding docs and escalation matrices.

Stakeholder enablement & delivery impact:

• Translate business bottlenecks into digital epics with measurable KPIs and ROI.
• Deliver dashboards and insights for leadership; maintain KPI cadence.

Qualifications:

• 2-5+ years in application development or ERP implementation/management (multi-location or multi-brand setups preferred).
• Strong proficiency in server-side languages (Node.js / Java / .NET / Python), relational and NoSQL databases, RESTful APIs and integrations.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS / Azure / GCP), containerization (Docker), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with automation (RPA / Power Automate / UiPath or equivalent) and familiarity with LLM/AI integration patterns.
• Demonstrable governance mindset: SOPs, access controls, backups, and incident management.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field.

• Prior exposure to manufacturing/ERP modules (inventory, shopfloor, BOM, planning).
• Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka / message brokers.
• Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (React / Vue) and responsive CSS practices.
• Experience with data warehousing, BI tools (Power BI / Tableau), and advanced analytics.
• Technical stack (recommended baseline)
• Backend: Node.js / Java / Python / .NET
• DB: PostgreSQL / MySQL + Redis; familiarity with document stores like MongoDB
• Cloud: AWS / Azure (compute, RDS, S3), container orchestration
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions / Jenkins / GitLab
• Automation: UiPath / Power Automate or equivalent; orchestration via Airflow (if needed)
• AI: OpenAI/LLM integration basics; embeddings for search, prompt orchestration
• Monitoring: Prometheus / Grafana or equivalent; centralized logging (ELK)