Senior Mobile Engineer at Nomba (Formerly Kudi)

Nomba - Launched in 2017 as "Kudi.ai", a chatbot that responds to financial requests on social apps, Nomba spent its first five years  empowering independent businesses to act as neighborhood banks offering basic financial services such as cash withdrawal, transfer and bill payments to all Nigerians, especially those in underserved communities. We currently process more than $500m in payments monthly.

Today, with over 250 employees and more than 150,000 businesses on our platform, our vision is to enable economic prosperity by supercharging businesses to run efficiently and meet their goals. We are creating a distinct gateway into the digital economy for businesses of all sizes by providing them with access to everyday tools that simplify payments and drive their growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Mobile Engineer

Location: Lekki Phase I, Lagos

Job Description

• Nomba software engineers build solutions that will forever change the face of finance and banking in Africa by bringing affordable banking services to the doorstep of people across the continent.
• We’re looking for engineers that can bring fresh ideas and experience to the table from all areas of expertise including distributed system design, mobile development, systems architecture, networking, security and more.
• As a Mobile engineer, you will be responsible for all levels of our vast technology stack from design to deployment; developing intelligent and resilient mission-critical systems which handle hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions monthly.
• You will also be responsible for significant architectural decisions, guiding the rest of the team technically and using all of the tools at your disposal along with your initiative to get stuff done.

About the Position

• You will be building and shipping robust apps to Android/ iOS devices using a single codebase.
• You will be writing readable and clear code  that will be extensively documented for future use and upgrades.
• You will be sharing feedback and brainstorming ideas with teams to improve the development process.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements to existing mobile apps.
• 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.

About You

• Have one or more iOS/Android apps developed in flutter. Either deployed on the AppStore/Google Play or available on Github;
• 3+ years in mobile software development Android or ios;
• 1+ years of experience with developing mobile apps in flutter
• Knowledge of Dart programming language, Rest APIs and integration of various APIs from third parties.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing and automated testing;
• Experience with CI/CD tools for automated mobile app deployments e.g Circle ci, fastlane,  codemagic, etc.
• Experience with firebase  (Crashlytics, Analytics, RealtimeDb cloud firestore) etc.
• Experience with version control tools like Git, and IDEs like Android studio, VsCode etc.
• Understanding of the Agile development life-cycle;
• Ability to write readable code, create extensive documentation for existing code, and refactor the previously written code into readable state.
• Experience with writing native android or ios  apps with kotlin, Java or swift is a plus
• Intermediate+ English skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and lead technically
• Ability to take initiative and get stuff done.
• Great communication skills.

Nice To Have:

• Experience with building native mobile apps with  kotlin or swift
• Experience working in financial services
• Excellent communication skills - verbal & oral.
• Approachable - easily approachable for others to discuss challenges with you.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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