Backend Engineer - Java 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 - Java

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Compliance & Risk

Job Summary

• Implement, maintain and where applicable support product features (and or enhancements).

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 efficient 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, Nodejs, .NET, and python.

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

• 4+ years of experience with Java / J2EE and associated technologies
• Must have hands on experience on java 8, multithreading, jvm tuning, performance improvements.
• Strong analytical and problem solving Skill
• Understanding of Design Patterns
• 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 DevOps knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP.

Nice To Have:

• Experience with JBoss/Wildfly application server
• NodeJs experience
• Understanding of Docker/8s
• Kafka Experience.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.