Engineering Lead (Core Banking) at Aku Fintech Services Limited

Aku is a digital bank licensed by the CBN to offer easy payment, simple banking for everyone. Send/receive money and pay bills via USSD, app, cards. We are on a mission to help africans get paid and grow.We leverage the power of tech to drive financial inclusion - one mobile device at a time.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Lead (Core Banking)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Define and maintain robust architectural frameworks and standards that support the development of innovative banking solutions.
• Scope and lead building of new product features and highly performant microservices.
• Collaborate closely with product management, design, and other departments to ensure seamless coordination in delivering exceptional FinTech products.
• Oversee the end-to-end software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure FinTech products.
• Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering talent, while continuously developing and mentoring team members to drive their growth and success.
• Collaborate with the executive team to shape and execute the company's technical strategy, aligning it with business objectives and staying at the forefront of industry trends.
• Communicate engineering strategy and status updates transparently and effectively to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Make tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.
• Establish and enforce rigorous quality assurance practices, including testing and code reviews, to maintain the highest product quality standards.
• Maintain a deep understanding of industry regulations and cybersecurity best practices to ensure our FinTech products are secure and compliant.

Experience and Requirements

• Proven track record of leadership in engineering roles within the fintech or banking sector.
• Strong knowledge of banking products and financial services.
• Strong technical background, with 7+ years of hands-on experience, using Java, and Spring Boot.
• Strong technical experience using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, SQL (Stored procedures, JPQL/Criteria API)
• Solid knowledge of security (Access Controls, roles, Permissions).
• Hands-on experience architecting and building large-scale, highly available distributed systems/applications.
• Experience working with relational databases, schema design, and performing query optimizations
• Leverage automated tests and observability tooling to help ship features to production with confidence.
• A good understanding of CI/CD tools, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex, technical concepts to any audience.
• Experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a high-performance engineering team.
• Ability to craft well-written technical design documentation.
• Prior experience working on core banking infrastructure (Lending, Savings, Payments, VAS).

Application Closing Date
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