Lead - Acquiring Processing at Flutterwave

About the Lead - Acquiring Processing Role
Flutterwave is looking for a Lead - Acquiring Processing who will manage the building of cutting-edge Payment Solutions for our customers by combining global payment processing, fraud management, payment security and reporting systems. Architecting and building a global, state of the art, massive scale, real-time payment processing platform. Build new, improve, and manage existing integrations and applications with external partners.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be;

• Research and implement best practices technology frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase reliability
• Research and stay abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment industry
• Career mentoring, coaching and development of a talented group of engineers
• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment
• Develop customer-facing applications using RESTful APIs
• Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements
• Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
• Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
• Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles
• Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as set up automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability
• Work with frontend designers and converting designs to visual elements.
• Maintain code and application security at all times. Ensure data protection.
• Develop applications in back-end programming languages like Java, .NET, PHP as well as web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings
• In-depth understanding of both front-end and back-end languages, and SEO standards
• Excellent computer programming language and creative skills
• Excellent organizational and people management skills
• Excellent problem-solving and quality assurance skills
• Excellent time management and analytical skills

Required competency and skillset to be a Waver:

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings
• In-depth understanding of both front-end and back-end languages, and SEO standards
• Excellent Data structures and algorithms as well as creative skills to apply them in solving problems
• Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies
• Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Excellent organizational and people management skills
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and quality assurance skills
• Excellent time management and analytical skills
• Excellent agile delivery knowledge including branching, testing and continuous development. Collaborate with other engineers to deliver sprint goals
• Excellent DevOps knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP