Description of the Role
JUMO needs a smart, dynamic execution focused Architect/Senior Engineer who can help scale a service to meet the needs of rapidly growing, high volume service offering. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to build a high volume, highly reliable platform while demonstrating technical leadership for more junior developers. She or he will be a strong technical leader who is able to operate in a high performing team, can creatively balance high quality delivery with customer focus to meet business needs, has excellent communications skills and a proven track record of delivering results in an aggressive and fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement and support Jumo’s platform
Actively participate in and contribute to architectural and technical stack choices
Recommend and implement technical solutions in a phased approach to migrate customers and add partners on to the Jumo platform
Diagnose and correct problems with production services
Interact with Product Managers, Channel Managers, partners and business stakeholders to define platform requirements
Lead small teams of Engineers.
Drive agile project planning process
Mentor junior Engineers
Make Jumo a destination for world class engineering talent
Skills and Competencies
Essential
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
Hands on experience with the design and development of high volume, highly reliable services
Ability to travel for meetings and training to countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Ghana
10+ years of experience designing, developing and testing software services
7+ years of experience with Ruby, Python, Java or Scala
5+ years of experience with Linux or MacOS
5+ years of experience using Agile development methodologies
Strong track record of personal leadership and initiative
Excellent communications skills
Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and designs
Desirable:
Understanding of basic financial and accounting concepts
Experience integrating real-time machine learning/AI/decision optimization in a big-data (HDFS+Map-Reduce) environment is highly desirable
Experience working in Amazon Web Service environments (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk) is highly desirable
Architect
