iRecruiters Africa is a fast-growing recruitment firm, offering world-class virtual recruitment & job posting services.
Mission
To be Africa’s trusted high quality talent providers, creating value-added partnership
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The company is seeking to hire a Senior Software Backend engineer specializing in core Java or/and Spring booth to work with their backend engineering team to complement the technical skills needed to be a key contributor in building and maintaining its core infrastructure and product development launch and scale.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies. S/he should be able to work independently with little or no supervision with excellent organization and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
Take ownership of technical solutions from coding, and release, to production.
Design and improve the maintainability of the code base through innovative design.
Use technical skills to build amazingly exciting world-class products.
Constantly communicate with diverse internal and external stakeholders in embracing agile practices.
Seek to understand how the business works to identify risks (in code, features, and design).
Diagnose complex issues across various levels of the stack.
Understand the business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems.
Work collaboratively to complete projects, showcase progress, and address problems.
Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers within the Engineering team.
Constantly improve to keep pace with innovations and technologies.
Balance deep work with cross-team collaboration.
Work alongside front-end developers to produce efficient and user-friendly systems.
Work on other tasks as assigned by the Engineering Leadership.
Write clean and scalable codes to develop functional applications.
Key Requirements:
B.Sc/BA degree in Computer Science or any related field
7+ years of cognate experience working with Java EE/Spring, with at least 3 years experience as a Senior Software Engineer
Knowledge of Object-oriented Programming concepts.
Test-driven development (TDD) experience.
Experience working with AWS, architecture, and design principles.
Strong team leader and player, with the ability to improve knowledge and skills.