Aku offers easy payments, simple banking - for everyone. Send / receive money and pay bills via USSD, app, cards + more. We’re a digital bank licensed by the CBN, on a mission to help Africans get paid and grow.
Job Description
- Design overall frontend architecture of web and mobile applications.
- Utilize a variety of markup languages to write web pages.
- Maintain code integrity and organization; write clean code which is well-tested and well-documented.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and security best practices.
- Build reusable code and libraries.
- Take a high level of ownership and responsibility for the work that you do.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as product managers and designers, to align technical decisions with business objectives.
- Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
- Communicate engineering strategy and status updates transparently and effectively to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Make trade-offs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
- Mentor juniors and organize training sessions or workshops to share best practices and new technologies with the team.
- Maintain quality and responsiveness of applications.
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
- Assist backend engineers with coding and troubleshooting.
- Developing features to enhance user experience on web and mobile applications.
- Ensure that all user input is validated before submitting to the backend.
- Develop web applications that are cross-browser compatible.
- Strike an excellent balance between functional and aesthetic design.
- Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
Requirements
- Solid experience in complex software projects with end-to-end ownership
- Strong professional background (5+ years) in our technology stack: Typescript, ReactJS, Webpack, Next.js
- Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable, and well-documented code and treat security as a first-class citizen.
- Proficiency in agile methodologies, continuous integration and deployment, test automation, cloud-based infrastructure, and tooling
- Analytical proficiency, both in the technical and in the product domain
- Ability to think outside the box and to work independently.
- Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders
- Plus: Experience with other UI engineering technologies
- Plus: Prior experience working in fintech (Lending, Savings, Payments, VAS)
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