Software Engineer - Full Stack at ActiveEdge Technologies

Job Description

• We are looking for software engineers with a passion for applying best practices and creating new things.
• You will design, test and implement solutions in the emerging financial technologies space.
• You will be part of a SWAT team of professionals building world class solutions from Nigeria.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop distributed solutions with touchpoints in telecommunications and banking that will leverage big data analytics and machine learning.
• Participate in solution workshops, write technical documentations and engage in continuous delivery and Devops

Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related fields.
• Strong understanding of distributed computing, PaaS, IaaS is required.
• Must have a strong analytical skillset and be courageous enough to take on new challenges and learn new things quickly.
• A high level of commitment to the job
• A passion for software engineering. The job involves significant investment in research and development.
• An open mindset i.e. a desire to learn and to impact your colleagues and the rest of the world.
• Good understand of developing and running micro-services is a plus.

Required Skills:

• Good knowledge of one or more programming languages including but not limited to Scala, Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, Golang.
• A good knowledge of developing enterprise solutions on the JVM is preferred.
• Experience with functional programming languages is an added advantage and ability to develop with Scala is a plus. We will consider a candidate who can demonstrate a good understanding of other object-oriented languages.
• Experience with web frameworks including Play, Asp.Net, Django, Lift etc is an added advantage.
• A very good understanding of one or more relational database management system (MySQL, PotgreSQL, MSSQL Server, Oracle) and/or NoSQL database system.
• You must have contributed significantly to one or more solution in use by customers.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English

Additional Skills:

• Candidate must have a working knowledge of source control tools i.e. git, mercurial, svn.
• Candidate must know how to write unit tests
• A good understanding of build tools and continuous integration is an added advantage
• Candidates should have a good understanding of private cloud infrastructures, preferably Google Cloud Platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure
• An understanding of cloud technologies including container technologies is an added advantage
• A working knowledge of Linux