Mobile Banking Application, Team Lead (FINTECH) at a Fintech Microfinance Bank - Bizpool Africa

Bizpool Africa - Our client, a Fintech Microfinance Bank, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mobile Banking Application, Team Lead (FINTECH)

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Developing high-quality features by working with our technology partners to better serve customers;
• Building a platform on which each market can plug its specific features while maintaining a solid common core product;
• Tackling complex financial processes with the right partners and appropriate solutions;
• Helping drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class experience for our customers;
• Being responsible for designing, developing and deploying medium to large-sized projects;
• Helping define engineering best practices and providing technical mentorship to other members of the engineering team;
• Contributing to continuous improvements to an infrastructure which can handle millions of clients;
• Analysing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of monitoring, continuous integration and platform integration.
• Our customer-facing product will be a third-party Digital Banking suite with a mobile wallet, lending suite, Digital Onboarding & Smart rules for instant decision-making;
• Our core banking Application is BankOne; We are currently upgrading to the Level 3 Bank-in-a-Box Digital Banking Solution;
• Other third-party partner solutions will be integrated with the digital Banking suite to improve our service offering i.e Social Banking, USSD Banking, Agency Banking etc

Qualifications / Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree
• You have 5+ years of experience in backend software development with Ruby (on Rails);
• You have experience working with Core-banking software or building digital Banking solutions.
• You have 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and object-oriented design skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers;
• Full stack Developer competencies including:
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB
• Expert knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations;
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and create technical designs and specifications;
• Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, productive software engineers;
• Experience influencing software engineers' best practices within your team.

Application Closing Date
20th January, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.