Senior POS Backend Development Engineer at PalmPay Limited

PalmPay Limited is a Pan-African fintech company currently operating in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya and expanding to other markets in 2022. We’re reinventing the payments experience by making it easy and reliable for everyone to transfer money, pay bills and shop online.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior POS Backend Development Engineer

Location: Ikeja GRA, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems for the Nigerian POS business, ensuring system stability, scalability, and high performance.
• Collaborate closely with the frontend development team to define API interface specifications, ensuring seamless coordination between frontend and backend.
• Participate in defining system architecture and technology choices, providing feasible technical solutions for business requirements.
• Address technical challenges in system development, ensure code quality and security, perform code reviews and optimizations.
• Coordinate with the testing team to ensure product quality, participate in system testing and troubleshooting efforts.
• Stay updated on technology trends, propose improvements and innovative suggestions, and maintain awareness of industry best practices.
• Possess detailed experience in the Nigerian POS business domain, understanding the interaction flows between institutions and channels, and familiarity with business rules and processes.
• Have expertise in standard protocols related to the POS domain, particularly ISO 8583 and other POS communication protocol standards.
• Assist in resolving critical issues, provide technical support and training, ensuring the smooth operation of the system.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in backend development, with preference for those experienced in POS business development.
• Proficiency in Java programming language, familiarity with Spring Boot framework, experience in microservices architecture is a plus.
• Experience in database design and optimization, familiarity with relational databases (such as MySQL).
• Practical experience with technologies like message queues, caching, e.g., Kafka, Redis.
• Familiarity with at least one RPC calling framework, with FeignClient being preferred, knowledge of GRPC, etc.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills, familiar with common design patterns and principles, capable of breaking down and simplifying complex problems.
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high efficiency.
• Effective communication skills and teamwork, capable of collaborating with team members from diverse backgrounds.

Application Closing Date
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