Senior Backend Engineer (Java EE/Spring) at Seerbit

Seerbit is a fast growing Financial Technology company that seeks to bridge the gaps identified in Africa’s payment ecosystem, with presence in over 10 African countries and aggressively expanding our footprint in Africa. We are on a mission to shape the future of commerce not just in Africa but across the globe. Our resultsdriven environment enables us to build better products, grow faster and empower everyone on our team to impact our business and our mission to close the payment gaps in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer (Java EE/Spring)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Work Schedule: Hybrid
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description

• The candidate should have hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies, must have hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies.
• Should be able to work independently with little or no supervision with an excellent organization and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities
What you will do:

• Take ownership of technical solutions from coding, release, to production.
• Design and improve the maintainability of the code base through innovative design.
• Use technical skills to build amazingly exciting world-class products.
• Constantly communicate with diverse internal and external stakeholders in embracing agile practices.
• Seek to understand how the business work to identify risks (in code, features, and design).
• Diagnose complex issues across various levels of the stack.
• Understand the business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems.
• Work collaboratively to complete projects, showcase progress, and address problems.
• Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers within the Engineering team.
• Constantly improve to keep pace with new innovations and technologies.
• Balance deep work with cross-team collaboration.
• Work alongside front-end developers to produce efficient and user-friendly systems.
• Work on other tasks as assigned by the Engineering Leadership.
• Write clean and scalable codes to develop functional applications.​

Requirements

• 8+ years experience working in the financial technology or banking sectors.
• 5+ years of experience in a frontline sales role managing complex sales cycles selling SaaS offerings in different verticals.
• Insurance and Pension fund market experience will be an added advantage.
• Confident and have a track record of experience managing your own territory and pipeline from prospecting to deal close.
• Solid experience in B2B and enterprise sales.

Benefits

• Family medical cover
• Flexible work schedule
• Profit share
• Stock option
• Learning & development opportunity

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.