Senior Core Switching Engineer at Flutterwave

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Core Switching Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Department: Engineering - DevOps & SRE

The Role

• Flutterwave is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for managing and seamlessly blending front-end and back-end web development. The ideal candidate will build new, improve, and manage existing integrations and applications with external partners.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be

• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product feature/enhancements in an agile environment
• Develop microservices using RESTful APIs
• Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements
• Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
• Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
• Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles
• Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as setup automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability
• Maintain code and application security at all times. Ensure data protection.
• Develop applications in Java with little knowledge in web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery
• Guide and mentor new engineers and interns

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organisation’s strategy, product and service offerings
• In-depth understanding of Java as a back-end language for application development
• Excellent knowledge and use of supported frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot
• Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies
• Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Excellent organisational and people management skills
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and quality assurance skills
• Excellent time management and analytical skills
• Excellent agile delivery knowledge including branching, testing and continuous development. Collaborate with other engineers to deliver sprint goals
• Excellent Devops knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure etc

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.