Head of Engineering at Aku Fintech Services Limited

Aku is a digital bank licensed by the CBN to offer easy payment, simple banking for everyone. Send/receive money and pay bills via USSD, app, cards. We are on a mission to help africans get paid and grow. We leverage the power of tech to drive financial inclusion - one mobile device at a time.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for a Head of Engineering to provide sound technical leadership in all aspects of our business.
• You will communicate with employees, stakeholders and customers to ensure our company’s technologies are used appropriately.
• The selected candidate will be responsible for building and leading a team of engineers for designing, developing, implementing, integrating, testing, qualifying, and maintaining the embedded software on a wide range of systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to ensure that the designed solutions respond to non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage.
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
• Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology.
• Supervise technical leads, analyzing software performance and configuration systems, and managing the deployment and integration of new software.
• Develop cutting-edge software solutions to optimize our business operations.
• Managing the installation and configuration of software solutions.
• Resolve software deployment and integration errors, and documenting processes.
• Perform routine maintenance and monitoring performance metrics.
• Ensure the team follows best practices by writing clean and well tested code, think logically and solve problems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 8 years software engineering experience.
• Experience in leading and managing software engineering teams in an agile environment.
• Strong project management skills with ability to manage many simultaneous projects.
• In-depth knowledge of programming languages such as Java/Spring boot, JavaScript based framework such as Reactjs/Vuejs.
• Experience using server side languages java or Java with microservice approach.
• Full stack understanding of web API/database development concepts and patterns.
• Extensive experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions.
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity.
• Ability and passion to quickly learn and implement new technologies as required.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, problem-solving, detail-focused, motived, good at teamwork.

Benefits

• MacBook Pro
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly
• Health Insurance
• Team building events
• Paid Leave Days.

Application Closing Date
5th July, 2022.