You will report directly to the CTO, and work with him to understand key commercial problems, and architect and build new solutions for them. You will join existing projects creating smart solutions to quickly onboard key integrations with large telecommunications partners and government agencies. You will also lead juniors to grow the cloud adoption with healthy sustainable practices, as they build or replace key systems to improve commercial outcomes, such as a new agent portal or new data pipelines for core credit analytics.
For any engineer, the mission is to:
- Understand the business’s primary commercial imperatives
- Envision the technology that will support the commercial imperatives with feedback from the in-country operations teams and sales network
- Design, build, test, maintain and manage robust software solutions to enable the them to achieve their jobs and ultimately the company’s objective to serve customers
We are looking for a candidate with rigorous and structured thought, and the discipline to deliver exceptional tech projects, but with an interest in learning business, finance and operational skills. The juniors in the team are primarily composed of young computer scientists and engineers who combine a strong aptitude for software development with astute commercial thinking and ability to lead teams of people to overcome operational challenges.
Basic Requirements:
- 4 or more years of software engineering experience with commercially successful systems in fintech, payments, retail banking, credit, e-commerce or logistics
- Recent experience in architecture and technical leadership of projects within these industries
- Demonstrated expert knowledge and management of a mission critical, 24×7 production system
- Strong analytical skills and problem solving skills, to identify and troubleshoot system and integration challenges.
- Excellent leadership, communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical teams
- Experience in cloud-based systems
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-code, rapid and collaborative code pipelines and other DevOps principles
Preferred Requirements
- Experience with AWS serverless products and infrastructure as code, Terraform or Cloudformation
Working Culture & Values
Our team is young and hard working. We value down time and flexibility, and we focus on outputs rather than hours in the office, but we also believe that we have a unique opportunity and we work very hard to meet the high standards we set for ourselves. We are low thrills and are careful custodians of money and resources. We love to travel to the countries we operate in and whenever we do, we make time to explore, but we do this, as with everything else, on a lean budget, cognisant of not diverting resources away from our customers, and our mission.
We value resilience and self-reliance. Though we constantly organise ourselves to tackle problems in teams and ruthlessly support one another, we also believe that building independence and self-reliance in the face of challenges is an important part of growth. We believe that long-term sustainability is a worthwhile goal. Whether in one’s personal life, from a business perspective, in relationships, or in the environment, we believe that prioritizing long term benefits over short term wins is a good strategy. As such, we aim for balance, and slow, steady and disciplined progress in all that we do.
Desired Skills:
- Jnr/Mid / Senior Level Developer
- AWS serverless products
- infrastructure as code
- Terraform
- Cloudformation