JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our product teams in scaling our payments products in Africa. As a Senior Software Engineer, you work in a team that owns the design, development, and operations for mission-critical applications of the payments business. You are responsible for developing frontend applications using best practices.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
Delivering complete features and maintaining existing ones.
Design and implement scalable distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and other tools in the Cloud Native landscape.
Build configuration and deployment assets required to deploy and run the distributed applications.
Work with the frontend and API engineers to define RESTful API Specifications.
Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable microservices and components.
Participating in Sprint Planning and tracking work items
Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
Ensure that all written code and architecture is high quality, scalable, and performant
Take initiative in refactoring and keep things simple
Take full ownership of a feature set, from the first discussion to going live.
Using test-driven development to write well-tested code.
Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well.
Prototyping new ideas to help with initial feature definition.
Participating in architecture and code reviews.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
Must have experience:
5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
5y+ Experience with Java/C# on large-scale projects.
Strong knowledge of building cloud-native applications using Java, Spring, and Spring boot.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
Confidence with the unit and automated functional testing in Spring boot.
Experience building multi-tenant distributed SAAS applications is a strong plus.
Experience with CI/CD.
Experience with performance analysis and optimization in Java is a strong plus
Proven software architecture experience.
Ability to understand and break down large features into complete solutions.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of engineers and other disciplines.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field
Personal attributes:
Proficient, autonomous, and rigorous behavior.
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