Lead, Platform Engineering Team at NowNow - Contec Global Group

Contec Global Group - Contec Global Group - Our subsidiary, NowNow, is a leading B2B, B2C FinTech Company in Nigeria and Angola. We are also rapidly growing our product suite and technology platform internationally. We are involved not just in payments but in building out the world's best technology ecosystem that digitizes cash and provides financial inclusion through technology in order to provide dignity and a better life to Africans.

Our ecosystem provides the best possible service and digital tools for Merchants, Agents and Consumers so that they can transact and grow together with a high-quality cross-functional team of 250+ we align through clear metrics, data-informed decisions, and an agile framework to deliver & monetize products and features that are human-centered and designed to be relevant to an ever-changing market.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead, Platform Engineering Team

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About The Role

• As a Senior Engineer/Lead, Platform Engineering, you will develop reusable common services and platform components using various technologies. 
• You will collaborate with technical architects, technical managers, product managers, agile coaches and other engineers across the company on high impact capabilities and product features.
• You will design, build and own the platform capabilities development.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Understand the functional business requirements, translate into the technical design, do technical analysis, create conceptual approaches, do impact analysis, collaborate with the business analysts & product managers to clarify the doubts.
• Understand non-functional requirements spanning across security, scalability, reliability, availability and provide the technical design. Implement the design, build, test, deploy & support software components and applications.
• Implement the projects using the Agile Software Development Methodologies. Participate in the daily scrums and provide your incremental status, give demos as per the planned schedules
• Make use of the best practices for the development, validate and deploy components and modules. Contribute towards the best practices
• Provide the estimate of your works and tasks allocated to you and meet the deadlines as planned
• Do POC's for the new capabilities, new products developments. Study the API's, integrate with partners, clarify questions.
• Create domain specific platforms that provide services for developers internally and other third party partners.
• Lead modernization efforts by refactoring legacy Java systems and integrating with modern Node.js microservices.
• Ensure application security, performance, and scalability best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across multiple technology stacks.

Requirements
Skill Set:

• Worked in Fintech / Payments / Banking / Financial Services domain
• Very strong & deep understanding in Software Design Patterns, OOPS Concepts, SDLC, Code Management & Branching Concepts
• Experience in writing very robust, secure, reusable & scalable code
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (Express, NestJS preferred).
• Experience with microservices architecture and cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, GCP or Huawei).
• Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying, supporting technical components and services using Node.js and Java
• Experience in developing unit test cases leveraging associated libraries from Node.js and Java
• Experience using databases like Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
• Experience in building platform capabilities & applications using REST API's, micro-services / event-driven/serverless architectures
• Experience in using Cloud platform services eg EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, SQS,SNS, Event Bridge, Redshift, StepFunction etc or equivalent services from other cloud providers.
• Experience using Agile Scrum, Jira, Confluence, User Stories, Story Point Estimates, Tasks Breakdown, Agile Ceremonies
• Experience in using Git, Bit-Bucket for source code management
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication skills and ability to mentor team members.

Salary
N1,000,000 - N2,000,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.