Backend Engineer - Acquiring Processing at Flutterwave

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer - Acquiring Processing

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Engineering - TPS

About the Job

• We are looking for a Backend Engineer - Acquiring Processing who will manage the building of cutting-edge Payment Solutions for our customers by combining global payment processing, fraud management, payment security and reporting systems. 
• Architecting and building a global, state of the art, massive scale, real-time payment processing platform. Build new, improve and manage existing integrations and applications with external partners.

Job Responsibilities
What your day-to-day activities will be:

• Research and implement best practices technology frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase reliability
• Research and stay abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment industry
• Career mentoring, coaching and development of a talented group of engineers
• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment
• Develop customer-facing applications using RESTful APIs
• Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements
• Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
• Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
• Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles
• Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as set up automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability
• Work with frontend designers and converting designs to visual elements.
• Maintain code and application security at all times. Ensure data protection.
• Develop applications in back-end programming languages like Java, .NET, PHP as well as web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings

Requirements
Required competency and skillset to be a Waver:

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings
• In-depth understanding of both front-end and back-end languages, and SEO standards
• Excellent Data structures and algorithms as well as creative skills to apply them in solving problems
• Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies
• Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Excellent organizational and people management skills
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and quality assurance skills
• Excellent time management and analytical skills
• Excellent agile delivery knowledge including branching, testing and continuous development. Collaborate with other engineers to deliver sprint goals
• Excellent DevOps knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP
• Excellent computer programming language and creative skills
• Excellent organizational and people management skills

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online