Software Engineer - iOS at Akuuk

Akuuk makes digital payments, e-commerce and related services easier and more intuitive for their clients, through a complete range of solutions that are simple, safe and customer oriented. We offer Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, Companies, Institutions and Public Administrations a full range of innovative solutions for digital payment and for physical and virtual payments acceptance, while providing tailored omnichannel solutions for e-commerce and other business sector. We provide end-to-end, modular and customised services to manage customers' payment cards with respect to: card processing, virtual accounts, point of sales (POS), dispute resolution, security services, fraud prevention and customer value management.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer - iOS

Location: Abuja
Department: Research & Development

Job Description

• We are looking for engaged and passionate Software Engineers to join our growing Engineering Team.
• These next couple of years, our technical challenge is to leverage a fully decoupled architecture and ultimately microservices at scale with a reliable, event-driven infrastructure behind the scenes:
  • Volume: Store, aggregate and compute 1M+ events/day today, 100M+ by next year.
  • Live: Analyse and take live decisions based on 1M+ events/day.
  • Modularity: Make our stack scale and increase squads' productivity by featuring microservices based on event-driven architecture.
  • Uptime: Keep a 99.99% uptime while dealing with an exponential activity growth.
• We are defining our next mobile strategy to address new way of adding collaboration on top of digital payment, for mobile population. It is a key challenge in our high-scale development. We will define, develop, release and scale the next generation of our mobile products.
• It's the right time for you to join us, as you will be involved in each mobile strategy decisions.
• We are seeking for an experimented iOS Engineer (+2 years) to join our engineering team. You will work closely with our actual mobile team, you will help to shape our mobile culture by taking team initiatives that have a wide-ranging impact on the team.
• You will play a significant role in scaling the mobile delivery by defining and setting up development best-practices, continuous integration and deployment systems and above all a modularized and decoupled applicative architecture.
• Here is our actual Akuuk iOS technical stack, we are more than welcome to your inputs, ideas and experience to improve it:
  • Mobile: Swift
  • Mobile Database: Realm
  • Backend: Ruby
  • Architecture: Viper

What You Will Do

• Designing architecture, code and deliver new features for our iOS apps.
• Implement best practices for developing iOS applications that target multiple devices and platform version.
• Scoping, estimating and prioritizing our roadmap features.
• Accelerate our development cycle by setting up the next continuous deployment system.
• Improve our current app architecture and we are continuously looking for ways of improving it.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and shared knowledge.

What We Are Looking For

• Already have an experience in delivery of mobile app (B2B/B2C).
• Experience in Swift.
• Involved and eager to work with the product team to define outstanding features.
• Experience in tests (unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests).
• Pragmatism, open-minded, autonomy and initiative.

Others:

• We are looking for enthusiastic folks who are ready to innovate and make an impact for the better. Positivity, candor, ambition, commitment - these are some of the values by which we live, as individuals and as a team.
• We believe that success comes from hard work and deserves to be recognized and rewarded.

Company Culture

• Competitive package (health coverage, lunch, commute, sport).
• Flat hierarchies and fast decision-making.
• Intellectual and friendly team environment consisting of exceedingly sharp and motivated co-workers.
• Potential for upward career growth, working with new technologies, and learning new skills.
• Exciting and challenging projects to match your interests and skills.
• Modern IT infrastructure.
• Yearly team off-site to exotic locations bringing together our team members.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Hiring Process

• HR sends email or calls for interview.
• Off-site or On-site and technical interview with the HR team.
• Technical use case or design task.
• Off-site or On-site interview and debrief of the task.
• Meeting with the CEO (optional).
• Team lunch.