Full Stack Developer at MFS Africa

MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 320 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.

As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on world-class operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated by the FSC in Mauritius, BoG in Ghana, BoT in Tanzania, and FCA in the UK.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Permanent
Department: Development

The Role

• Full Stack developer will be responsible for building high-quality, innovative, and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design. This role supports our Tulsa (US)-based technology team. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and implement process-based applications.
• Design, develop, test, and implement web-based applications using OWASP software development practices.
• Design, develop and test database packages and objects.
• Designing and developing scalable web service APIs.
• Identify and analyze user requirements.
• Review, test, and debug team members’ code.
• Prepare project plans and manage projects to assure objectives are met on time and within budget.
• Design systems with understanding of reusability, scalability.
• Deploy and maintain functional, secure, and high-quality applications with attention to detail.
• Assure compliance with GTP and Payment Card Industry policies, procedures, standards, and regulations.
• Assist in training and orientation of other staff and users.
• Maintain proficiency in programming languages, object-oriented design, and testing.
• Remain current on technical and professional developments affecting area of responsibility.
• Provide one week of On-Call support on a rotating basis; approximately every 4 months.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• B.Sc degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or related field; or equivalent experience of 7 - 10 years.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to think algorithmically, self-starter.
• Minimum of three years of solid experience in Enterprise Software Development and full Software Development Life Cycle of Design, Documentation, Coding, Testing / Debugging, Implementation, and Maintenance.
• High Level of expertise with C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio 20XX, Relational Databases (Oracle, PL/SQL preferred).
• Strong experience with JavaScript and one or more leading JavaScript frameworks (Vue, Angular, React, JQuery, etc.).
• Experience working with XML/JSON, Web Services.
• Working knowledge of version control systems such as GIT.
• Excellent customer service attitude, good communications skills (both verbal and written), good project
• management and organizational skills and the ability to cope with and manage a constantly changing environment.
• Familiarity with automated testing and unit tests, using frameworks such as Playwright is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab is a plus.
• Experience with ASP.NET Web API 2 and MVC 5 is a plus.
• Experience with CSS/Web UI Layout (+basic Photoshop skills) is a plus.

Working Conditions:

• Job requires sitting most of the time working on a computer in an office environment or working from home.
• Normal working hours have some flexibility but typically revolve around a Monday through Friday core schedule of 14:00 GMT to 22:00 GMT to accommodate a Product and Tech team located in Tulsa, OK, USA (CST/CDT time zone). This role is based in Nigeria or Ghana. 

Why Work For Us

• We are the cutting edge of fintech in Africa
• Ranked by Fast Company as Second Most Innovative Company in Africa
• Attractive package including flexible benefits and competitive remuneration
• Diverse, inclusive, gender-balanced company culture representing >28 nationalities and speaking >20 languages 
• Massive growth potential
• We operate a flexible dispersed working environment with flexible leave policy.
• We solve relevant problems for Africa and the world to create access for the millions of users who also believe in what we do.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.