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: Head of Engineering
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- We are looking for a Head of Engineering to provide sound technical leadership in all aspects of our business.
- You will communicate with employees, stakeholders and customers to ensure our company’s technologies are used appropriately.
- The selected candidate will be responsible for building and leading a team of engineers for designing, developing, implementing, integrating, testing, qualifying, and maintaining the embedded software on a wide range of systems.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to ensure that the designed solutions respond to non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
- Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage.
- Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
- Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
- Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
- Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology.
- Supervise technical leads, analyzing software performance and configuration systems, and managing the deployment and integration of new software.
- Develop cutting-edge software solutions to optimize our business operations.
- Managing the installation and configuration of software solutions.
- Resolve software deployment and integration errors, and documenting processes.
- Perform routine maintenance and monitoring performance metrics.
- Ensure the team follows best practices by writing clean and well tested code, think logically and solve problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum of 8 years software engineering experience.
- Experience in leading and managing software engineering teams in an agile environment.
- Strong project management skills with ability to manage many simultaneous projects.
- In-depth knowledge of programming languages such as Java/Spring boot, JavaScript based framework such as Reactjs/Vuejs.
- Experience using server side languages java or Java with microservice approach.
- Full stack understanding of web API/database development concepts and patterns.
- Extensive experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions.
- Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
- Knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity.
- Ability and passion to quickly learn and implement new technologies as required.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, problem-solving, detail-focused, motived, good at teamwork.
Benefits
- MacBook Pro
- Flexible working hours
- Remote friendly
- Health Insurance
- Team building events
- Paid Leave Days.
Application Closing Date
5th July, 2022.
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