Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Remote) at Cellulant

Posted on Thu 23rd Mar, 2023 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

Cellulant is Africa’s no.1 company in the payments & transfers category - FIntech Awards 2016. We are a PPISP (Payment Platform Infrastructure Service Provider) regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and insured by Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Location: Remote
Department: Software Engineering

Job Description

  • As a Senior Software Engineer, you work in a team that owns the design, development, and operations for mission-critical applications of the payments business.
  • You are responsible for developing frontend applications using best practices.

Core Responsibilities

  • Delivering complete features and maintaining existing ones.
  • Design and implement scalable distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and other tools in the Cloud Native landscape.
  • Build configuration and deployment assets required to deploy and run the distributed applications.
  • Work with the frontend and API engineers to define RESTful API Specifications.
  • Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable microservices and components.
  • Participating in Sprint Planning and tracking work items
  • Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
  • Ensure that all written code and architecture is high quality, scalable, and performant
  • Take initiative in refactoring and keep things simple
  • Take full ownership of a feature set, from the first discussion to going live.
  • Using test-driven development to write well-tested code.
  • Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well.
  • Prototyping new ideas to help with initial feature definition.
  • Participating in architecture and code reviews.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
  • 5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
  • 5y+ Experience with Java/C# on large-scale projects.
  • Strong knowledge of building cloud-native applications using Java, Spring, and Spring boot.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
  • Confidence with the unit and automated functional testing in Spring boot.
  • Experience building multi-tenant distributed SAAS applications is a strong plus.
  • Experience with CI/CD.
  • Experience with performance analysis and optimization in Java is a strong plus
  • Proven software architecture experience.
  • Ability to understand and break down large features into complete solutions.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of engineers and other disciplines.

Experience that will count in your favour: 

  • You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft

Personal attributes: 

  • Proficient, autonomous, and rigorous behavior.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online