Engineer - Ruby at BitPesa

Job Summary

• We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference to the lives of those living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.
• Our development team is a group of skilled self-reliant engineers that have the ability to work together to solve complex problems and provide simple solutions for our customers. We are looking for an Engineering - OE to join our rapidly growing team in one of our offices.
• This role can be based in our Nairobi, Lagos or London offices.

Responsibilities

• Innovate, develop, maintain and contribute to the existing BitPesa codebase and its associated applications
• Work closely with the engineering leads to aid with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure
• Mentor, train and support other engineers in order to develop our in-house development skills
• Improve our overall system development process via process improvements
• Improve the delivery capacity of the team
• Optimise application performance and test coverage
• Deliver presentations demonstrating application feature delivery
• Work with our product team to refine product requirements including providing feasibility and effort estimations
• Provide support to our customers including triaging any issues

Requirements
Required:

• Significant experience in a similar role
• Good knowledge of working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Good knowledge of using automated testing frameworks such as RSpec
• Working knowledge of Javascript
• Good knowledge of source control using Git
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum
• Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on the cloud
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration
• Good knowledge of databases systems, especially PostgreSQL
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases
• A strong and flexible work ethic
• Excellent communication skills

Desired:

• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of cloud providers, especially AWS
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum
• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review code of others
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Casual work environment
• Great work-life balance
• We value autonomy
• Environmental-friendly (we try to use as less paper as possible!)
• Opportunity for growth for all our employees