Software Engineer at Old Mutual Nigeria

Old Mutual is a premium African financial services organisation that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in 14 countries. The lines of business include Life and Savings, Property and Casualty, Asset Management and Banking and Lending.

We are rooted in our purpose of Championing Mutually Positive Futures Every Day and believe that a great customer experience is anchored in a great employee experience.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Software Engineer

Job Requisition ID: JR-28130
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description

• The role of Software Engineer - Senior Web Developer is responsible for the development of high-quality web solutions.
• This role requires participation in the development and maintenance activities of software and other digital applications or services.
• The incumbent will be expected to develop user-centered software and contribute to developing technical specifications.
• This role requires fundamentals in engineering practices, an analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving, while following DevOps, SRE and Cloud Based practices.

Responsibilities

• Follow Agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban)
• Work in a DevOps culture
• Work closely with multi-skilled and cross-functional teams e.g., architects, developers, UX designers, business
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Document & Design solutions at an Application Level with guidance from seniors
• Participates in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions
• Contributes to and develop technical specifications and software application architecture and designs
• Build cloud based functional web applications at an enterprise level
• Build Front-end and/or back-end solutions on the web digital channel/platform
• Implement complex Business Features and solutions autonomously
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Understand, communicate and/or translate complex procedures
• Writes secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
• Assumes responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.
• Responsible for getting designs and code reviewed,
• Writes unit tests and tests code thoroughly
• Classifies, stores, and handles data in accordance with Old Mutual policies
• Clearly documents software to ensure that future generations of developers understand the intention behind the features and components built.
• Knowledgeable of and implements coding design patterns
• Review and refactor code according to coding standards
• Refactor complex code to improve maintainability
• Provide after-hours support of applications (you build it, you run it)
• Understands the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties, and dependencies of the team’s software, including hardware platform, operating system and build dependencies.  
• In the event of a problem, troubleshoots, researches the root cause of problems, and thoroughly resolve defects. 
• Drive monitoring and alerting for solutions
• Continuously develop skills
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind teams' software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Understand and contribute to the technical roadmap and vision of the Digital & Data team
• Seek to learn the business context and technologies behind the team’s software.
• Work effectively with customers and/or internal partners to understand business impacts and identify any opportunities/problems arising from technical decisions
• Research and share programming/technology-related advances to team(s)
• Build and test software prototypes
• Provide higher-level technical and programming support to fellow-developers/engineers
• Mentor and coach developers
• Research and recommend programming-related advances to team(s)
• Create and test software prototypes

Experience & Qualification Requirements

• First Degree with a relevant tertiary qualification
• 4+ years of experience in web application development
• Knowledge of, and experience in web frameworks and technologies such as:
  • .Net Core 
  • NodeJS
  • Kotlin
  • Asp.Net Core framework
  • Angular / Vue.JS / REACT
  • HTML / CSS/ SCSS/ Sass / Javascript / Typescript
  • Relational and Document-based Databases e.g., Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, Mongo, Postgres etc.
  • Containerisation technologies e.g., Kubernetes, Docker
  • CI/CD Tools e.g., Jenkins, AWS Code Commit
  • AWS (preferred) or another cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
  • IaC technologies e.g., Terraform/Cloudformation
  • Data Visualization tools e.g.  Data Dog, Grafana or similar toolchain
  • Test-Driven Development is one of our key practices.
  • Performance testing tools e.g., Locust/Jmeter/Gatling etc.
  • Static Analysis / Code standards (Linting)
  • Contract testing (e.g., Postman, Neman)
  • Collaboration tools e.g., Confluence, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack
• Familiarity with architecture styles such as Microservice and Serverless architectures
• Critical thinking, root cause identification skills and attention to detail
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Good communications skills and a team player
• Comfortable with pair programming
• Possess commercial and business awareness

Competencies:

• Customer focus
• Multi-functional team collaboration
• Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving
• Conflict management and resolution
• High EQ.

Application Closing Date
17th August, 2022.