Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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.

Experience that will count in your favour: 

• You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Personal attributes: 

• Proficient, autonomous, and rigorous behavior.