Senior Software Engineer (Core Backend Java EE/Spring) at SeerBit

Job Description

Work Schedule: Hybrid

We are a financial technology company seeking to bridge the gaps identified in Africa’s payment ecosystem with presence in 9 African countries and serving over a large number of merchants across different verticals and aggressively expanding our footprint.

We are on a mission to shape the future of commerce not just in Africa but across the globe. Our resultsdriven environment enables us to build better products, grow faster and empower everyone on our team to have an impact on our business and to close the payment gaps in Africa and the rest of the world. Join us to develop and build Africa’s most trusted payment gateway that help merchants do business with ease, with style and without borders.

What we need

We are sourcing for a midsenior engineer with specialty in core Java or/and Spring booth to work with our backend engineering team to complement the technical skills needed to serve as a key contributor in building and maintaining our core infrastructure and products development launch and scale.

What you will do

• Take ownership of technical solutions from coding, release, to production.
• Write clean and scalable codes to develop functional applications.
• Design and improve the maintainability of the code base through innovative design.
• Use  technical skills to build amazingly exciting worldclass products
• Constantly communicate with diverse internal and external stakeholders in embracing agile practices
• Seek to understand how the business work 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 new innovations and technologies.
• Balance deep work with crossteam collaboration.
• Work alongside frontend developers to produce efficient and userfriendly systems
• Work on other tasks as assigned by the Engineering Leadership

Requirements

• First degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or any related field
• 5+ years of cognate experience working with Java EE/Spring, Node JS and Python.
• Knowledge of Objectoriented Programming concepts.
• Good understanding of relational databases, and agile methodologies
• Working knowledge of core data structures
• Testdriven development (TDD) experience
• Familiarity with containerization (i.e. Docker), and knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool
• Experience working with AWS, architecture, and design principles
• Strong team leader and player, with the ability to improve knowledge and skills
• Good Interpersonal, stakeholder management, and communication skills
• Strong passion for Software Development

Benefits

Compensation: Highly Competitive

Our Benefits

• Family medical cover
• Flexible work schedule
• Profit share
• Stock option
• Learning & development opportunity