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  • Posted: Sep 25, 2019
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Engineer - Ruby

    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

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to BitPesa on bitpesa.workable.com to apply

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