Senior Mobile / Frontend Developer at MKOBO Microfinance Bank

MKOBO is a fully licensed Microfinance bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Lagos, Nigeria. MKOBO was conceived to help solve consumers’ need for access to short-term emergency credit. Our goal is to provide access to short term unsecured loans, which is easily accessible. We cater to the demography currently undeserved by the Commercial banks in our aim to help increase financial inclusion of the Nigerian population.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Mobile / Frontend Developer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Function: Software engineer/DevOps engineer
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support)
• Product fully functional mobile application writing code
• Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions
• Design interfaces to improve user experience
• Liaise with the product development team to plan new features
• Research and suggest new mobile products, applications, and protocols
• Designing and developing mobile applications for Android or iOS platforms using mobile development frameworks such as React Native.
• Identify and plan for new features
• Develop application programming interfaces (APIs) to support mobile functionality
• Suggest and implement new mobile products, applications, and protocols
•  Remain up to date with the terminology, concepts, and best practices for coding mobile apps
• Work closely with colleagues to constantly innovate app functionality and design
•  Use and adapt existing web applications for app
•  Write unit and UI tests to identify malfunctions
• Communicate with users to understand their needs and experiences
• Optimize and design interfaces to improve user experience
• Fixing bugs and testing for usability.

Qualification and Experience

• 5+ years of engineering experience writing native mobile apps for Android and iOS with Flutter.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience working on mobile apps, with a preference for candidates that have extended experience developing for iOS or Android
• Experience working for a Fintech preferable
• Experience with third-part libraries & APIs
• Demonstrable experience working with Dart and Flutter
• Experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and YAML
• Solid experience in software development
• Familiarity with integrating third-party libraries and APIs
• understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, or other version control tools;
• Understanding of the Agile development life-cycle;
• Experience with automated testing and building;
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, or other version control tools.
• Strong working knowledge of HTML5 & CSS, MySQL, and JavaScript.
• The familiarity with frameworks & web technologies.

Knowledge:

• Ability to create user-friendly and user experience applications.
• Solid hands-on experience in Android application architecture, design and development, mobile development frameworks, mobile application tools, and environment.
• Knowledge and experience with build and release management.
• Good knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Good knowledge of interface builder, Core animation, and Object-oriented concepts

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.