Senior Backend Engineer - Java at Flutterwave

The role: 

Flutterwave is looking for Backend Engineers – Java to design, implement, maintain and support software systems powering its products in financial domain.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be Like 

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings.
• 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.
• Development of features and RESTful APIs with an event driven Microservice architecture.
• 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.
• Always maintain code and application security with adhering to data protection and privacy standards.

Required competency and skill set to be a Waver:

• 5+ years of experience with Java / JEE / Spring Boot  and associated technologies.
• Must have hands-on experience on java 8, multithreading, Jvm tuning, performance improvements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of Design Patterns.
• 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 DevOps knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP.

Nice to have:

• NodeJs experience
• Understanding of Docker/K8s
• Kafka Experience