Our mission is to power a new wave of prosperity across Africa. By enabling global digital payments on a continent that’s been largely cut off from the digital economy, we’re creating the infrastructure to power Africa’s growth in the 21st Century. Founded in 2016 by a team of ex-bankers, entrepreneurs and engineers, we provide the underlying technology platform that allows businesses to make and accept payments anywhere in Africa. Our HQ is in San Francisco with offices in Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, and Johannesburg
The role:
Flutterwave is looking for Backend Engineers – Java to design, implement, maintain and support software systems powering its products in financial domain.
What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be Like
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings.
- Research and implement best practices technology frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase reliability.
- Research and stay abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment industry.
- Career mentoring, coaching and development of a talented group of engineers.
- Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment.
- Development of features and RESTful APIs with an event driven Microservice architecture.
- Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements.
- Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
- Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
- Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles.
- Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as set up automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability.
- Always maintain code and application security with adhering to data protection and privacy standards.
Required competency and skill set to be a Waver:
- 5+ years of experience with Java / JEE / Spring Boot and associated technologies.
- Must have hands-on experience on java 8, multithreading, Jvm tuning, performance improvements.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Understanding of Design Patterns.
- Excellent Data structures and algorithms as well as creative skills to apply them in solving problems.
- Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies.
- Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
- Excellent organizational and people management skills.
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and quality assurance skills.
- Excellent time management and analytical skills.
- Excellent DevOps knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP.
Nice to have:
- NodeJs experience
- Understanding of Docker/K8s
- Kafka Experience
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