Senior Backend Engineer at Kudi Nigeria

Kudi aims to make financial services accessible and affordable for all Africans and is particular about retaining her place as a significant player in the African fintech space. We have a well-established track record in payments, and our services have always met with excellent customer satisfaction. We are empowering agents to tackle financial inclusion while creating entrepreneurial opportunities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
About the Position:

• Architect, design and develop mobile products.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements to existing mobile services.
• Manage Junior Engineers, providing mentoring, code reviews, architectural design etc.
• Perform performance review on direct reports and report details to line manager.
• Take full responsibility for products while they are in development and issues that arise when they are in use.
• You will work across different technology stacks and languages (mainly with a focus on Java and NodeJS);
• You will have an end to end responsibility of many services from design to deployment;
• You will join a fast-paced team of engineers
• You will be a point of call for technical matters.

Requirements
About You:

• Excellent programming skills
• At least 5 years experience developing in Java (Springboot or Dropwizard frameworks) & NodeJS in the industry
• At least 5 years experience developing with MongoDB or MySQL
• Strong affinity for technical design, testing and system architecture
• Experience working with containers
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong System Architecture Design skills
• Knowledge of fundamental computing topics, e.g. networking, databases, concurrency, parallelism, locking, algorithms, data structures, performance monitoring, optimisation, etc
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practises, e.g DDD, TDD
• Ability to work autonomously and lead technically
• Ability to take initiative and get stuff done
• Great communication skills.

Skills:
Nice to have:

• Knowledge of  Rust or Python
• Experience working in financial services
• Excellent communication skills verbal & oral
• Approachable easily approachable for others to discuss challenges with you.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary 
• Performance Bonuses
• Health Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.