Middleware Engineer at Tek Experts

Responsibilities
 

• Work crss-functionally as part of the platform team designing/creating/deploying APIs, new data transformations, webservices, and supporting production operations
• Implement monitoring and scalability for the middleware services and application
• Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture to set clear goals, delegate tasks and set deadlines
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics
• Configure the queues on the middleware technology stack
• Create, deploy, configure, support, and troubleshoot issues with networked application environments
• Responsible for configuring the middleware services in multiple environments and testing the capabilities exposed by these services
• Exposes all required services for the client journeys timeously

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field
• Must have completed the compulsory 1-year NYSC or have an exemption certificate
• 4-5 years of software design and development experience along with 2-3 years of experience in applying modern frameworks and patterns to build highly scalable enterprise SaaS applications
• Strong Java/J2EE experience, Hibernate, JMS, Spring (Core, MVC, Integration), REST APIs, MySQL
• Strong practical knowledge exposing services on middleware technologies such as IBM MQ, etc.
• Good knowledge of integration patterns with third parties and downstream applications
• Extensive experience on how to map XML and other data structures to JSON-based response objects
• Practical knowledge of queue technologies, with working knowledge of how to configure the queues and integrate with upstream systems
• Familiar with SDLC tools (working knowledge of Agile software development a plus)
• Ant, Maven, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Travis, Puppet, Ansible, Docker knowledge beneficial
• Experience with Agile methodology, source control management, and automated testing
• Excellent communication skills
• Banking industry experience is a plus
• Professional fluency in English is essential, both written and spoken