Job description
We are excited to be hiring more platform engineers as a result of our steady growth trajectory. The platform engineers will be responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of local businesses in Africa and beyond. Our platform engineers are passionate about their work, focussed and goal driven with a strong desire to achieve skill of mastery level.
As a Platform Engineer, you will build various aspects of mSurvey infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale. Specific responsibilities include:
Closely monitoring all platform related production systems
Proactively correcting, improving and optimising the mSurvey platforms
Developing best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests
Working with Data Scientists to develop rich value added features
Working with DBA to create an ETL and Data Warehouse system
Working with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability
Developing and maintaining a world class public API
Periodically performing On-Call duty
Analysing requirements thoroughly and developing solutions that solves the true customers’ pain
Designing and challenging system design with peers
Performing testing and unit testing for delivering quality work
Acquiring technical skill and knowledge continuously and aggressively
Properly documenting development work completed
Essential Requirements
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) or related engineering discipline
Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and distributed systems
Loves building things and shipping them, truly making them work in the best way possible
At least 3 years experience with Java server-side programming
Individuals with a love for the African continent who want to be part of the team driving a business revolution
Added Advantage
Advanced knowledge of JAVA, JVM Runtime, and JVM performance tuning
Open Source project contributions
Unix systems programming experience
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