Junior Backend Engineer at Primera Africa Finance Group

Description 

• We are looking for engaged and enthusiastic Backend Engineers to join our team. The Back-End Developer will be responsible for designing and developing new features, as well as maintaining and upgrading existing tools.
• The Back-End Developer will play an integral part in the project life cycle and work closely with team members from the initial concept to final release.

Duties & Responsibilities
What you will do:

• Undertake software design and development activities as part of a project team
• Provide expert technical assistance and mentoring to staff
• Review work to ensure completion criteria are met
• Undertake tasks within agreed time-frame
• Assist in assessing the performance of staff that have undertaken activities under your direct supervision
• Collaborate with QA and DevOps team on continuous integration and delivery as well as automated and manual testing to ensure good quality solutions are delivered
• Participate in an agile delivery process, research and recommend new solutions

Technical Requirements & Qualifications
What you will bring:

• HND in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another technical discipline
• Minimum 5 years demonstrated industry experience in the development of software systems and components.
• Proven experience building enterprise solutions with Java 8, Hibernate, SpringMVC, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• Proficiency in Frontend technologies - Angular, React, JavaScript
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases - MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis
• Experience developing restful APIs, MicroServices and other distributed systems.
• Expertise in using java build systems and DevOps tools - Maven, Gradle and Docker.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests for large scale projects.
• Experience working with Java EE application containers – Wildfly
• Minimum 3 years of experience developing enterprise java applications using Spring.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience with payment systems
• Experience working with Cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure

Who You are:

• Excellent People Skills - Incredibly friendly & happy. People love to be around you because you have such positive vibes.
• Technical Background. Can comfortably communicate with software developers about code and/or create code samples and demo apps that enable developer users.
• Extend tutorials developed in certain frameworks to other relevant frameworks.
• Attention to detail - Organized and diligent with reports. Ready to learn skills that will benefit you for the rest of your life, personally & professionally
• Coachability - Tremendous desire to learn about FinTech and constantly improve in a “no-egos” environment
• Emotional Intelligence - Ability to read emotional cues, understand a customer’s needs, and navigate a conversation
• An Interest in FinTech and Payments: If learning about how Payment Powers
• Commerce in a soon to be Unicorn is of great value to you - you’re in the right place
• Big Picture Thinker. Have a strong vision for where the industry is going, and stay on top of new technologies, stacks, build proof-of-concept prototypes to try out new ideas or stitch together end-to-end solution