Senior Software Engineer (PHP) 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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

Location: Lagos (Remote)

What You Will Do

• Own the technical architecture of high visibility, high impact platform features. Develop scalable and extensible solutions that provide immediate business value to the company.
• Design, develop and implement custom software applications for a variety of legacy, new and modern systems with limited supervision.
• Support release planning with conceptual design and development/refinement of software engineering guidelines and principles.
• Continuously research new and best coding practices and optimise application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborate with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes to achieve project goals.
• Use appropriate tools to create comprehensive documentations for existing and new software products.

Job Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Hands-on experience (6 years minimum) as a software engineer building and maintaining scalable software products in an agile environment.
• Our ideal candidate should have the ability to work remotely and must be passionate about developing top-notch software FinTech solutions.
• Experience working with a team of software developers building enterprise scale products.
• A solid understanding of SDLC, best practices and design patterns.
• Excellent understanding of Cloud Infrastructure, Architectural Patterns, Object Oriented Design and SOLID principles.
• Have expertise in implementing micro services (using tools and technologies for messaging, RPC, containerization, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of PHP and Laravel framework.
• Excellent Knowledge of caching with Redis and managing relational (MySQL, Postgres, etc.) and non-relational databases (MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge of version control tools like Git and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, etc.
• Comfortable working with Docker, deploying containerizing applications in cloud environments and micro-services architecture.
• Sound leadership skills rooted in leading by example, motivating others to grow and communicating effectively to foster successful teamwork.
• Experience in Financial Technology is advantageous but not required.
• Previous experience at a high-growth fast-paced startup, or a passion to join one.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Knowledge of DevOps trends and working practices.
• Experience working with Elasticsearch.
• Experience working with AWS Cloud Services.
• Experience with Jira.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.