AADL Engineer Backend at Airtel

As a Backend software developer/Engineer, you will interact with the engineering team to solve problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture of our growing products. This will involve working on our existing codebase along with new projects.

Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will be felt immediately.

All teams at AADL are involved in every part of our development life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems.
• Own the entire development lifecycle as you prototype, create, optimize, test, launch, and refine. Build features that will reach millions of users.
• Play a critical role in ensuring modular and scalable design and architecture of Backend Applications.
• Keeping up to date with best industry practices and lead adopting new technologies.
• Set high standards for monitoring and getting to know challenges faced by customers and improving the experience.
• In nutshell you will "Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy, Debug. Repeat!"

Academic Qualifications and Experience

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer science or Information Technology with Demonstrated experience of 5+ years in Backend – Java development.
• Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, and complexity analysis.
• Experience in developing RESTful APIs.
• Strong understanding on both Monolithic and Micro Services architectures. Hands-on experience in developing and deploying Micro Services components preferably using Spring boot.
• Experience with version control system such as Git & Bitbucket.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.

Required Skills

• Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach.
• Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
• Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms.
• Good experience with databases and Schema design.
• Knowledge on Postman and SoapUi.
• Knowledge on build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Nice to have Jenkins and CI/CD Knowledge.
• Lastly, it’s important to have fun! Bringing a sense of humor and camaraderie to the team allows for good relationships and communication to flourish.