Senior Backend Engineer - Java 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: Senior Backend Engineer - Java

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Senior Backend Engineer will be tasked with troubleshooting and improving current backend applications and processes and building new applications to streamline and enhance internal and external processes.
• The role holder will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current code and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.

Responsibilities

• Take full responsibility for products while they are in development and issues that arise when they are in use.
• Performs hands-on coding using Java 17 & unit testing.
• Interact with tech lead to understand technology direction/changes, standards and best practices.
• Resolve technical issues for designers and developers during product lifecycle.
• Designs, develops, and implements web-based Java applications to support business requirements. Follows approved life cycle methodologies, creates design documents, and performs program coding and testing.
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks.
• Contribute to the design and develops high-quality software for large scale Java/Spring Batch/Micro-service applications.
• Perform unit and system testing of application code as well as execution of implementation activities.
• Analyze business requirements, and create technical design documents that are in accordance with the company's architecture standards.
• Ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents, maintains, and modifies computer programs of high complexity, significance, and risk.
• Performs and/or leads design, coding, testing, implementation, and documentation of solution. Develops basic and detailed program specifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 5 years software engineering core backend experience preferably in a financial technology company.
• Proficiency in Java 17, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, JSON, Micro Services, 12 Factor Apps.
• Experience with Microservices is a nice to have.
• Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice-based platforms
• Demonstrated knowledge of token-based authentication protocol and Security Coding Standards.
• Excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills on Java 17 technologies
• Experience using Ziphster for Microservice development will be added advantage).
• Proficiency in the following general areas: Java 17 Spring Framework, Ziphster, DevOps pipeline and Github.
• Experience with RESTful services, Rabbit MQ/Kafka/Kinesis, JSON, Unix Scripting.
• Core development experience in large-scale enterprise Java applications using Spring Framework.
• Experience in using PostgreSQL database.

Benefits

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

Application Closing Date
5th July, 2022.