Our mission at MFS Africa is to develop and distribute tailored yet scalable mobile financial solutions to underserved markets across Africa.
We provide accessible, affordable, inclusive alternatives for remittance/money transfers, micro-lending, micro-insurance, micro-savings, and payments.
MFS Africa connects mobile money systems to each other and to...
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Our ideal candidate should have the ability to work remotely and must be passionate about developing top-notch software FinTech solutions.
Hands-on experience (6 years minimum) as a software engineer building and maintaining scalable software products in an agile environment.
Experience working with a team of software developers building enterprise scale products.
A solid understanding of SDLC, best practices and design patterns.
Excellent understanding of Cloud Infrastructure, Architectural Patterns, Object Oriented Design and SOLID principles.
Have expertise in implementing micro services (using tools and technologies for messaging, RPC, containerization, etc.)
Advanced knowledge of programming languages like Golang, Nodejs, Typescript and frameworks like Fiber, Express and NestJs.
Excellent Knowledge of caching with Redis and managing relational (MySQL, Postgres, etc.) and non-relational databases (MongoDB, Apache Cassandra, etc.).
A good understanding of concurrency and how to scale applications leveraging on concurrency.
Advanced knowledge of version control tools like Git and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, etc.
Comfortable working with Docker, deploying containerizing applications in cloud environments and micro-services architecture.
Sound leadership skills rooted in leading by example, motivating others to grow and communicating effectively to foster successful teamwork.
Experience in Financial Technology is advantageous but not required.
Previous experience at a high-growth fast-paced startup, or a passion to join one
What you will do:
Own the technical architecture of high visibility, high impact platform features. Develop scalable and extensible solutions that provide immediate business value to the company.
Design, develop and implement custom software applications for a variety of legacy, new and modern systems with limited supervision.
Support release planning with conceptual design and development/refinement of software engineering guidelines and principles.
Continuously research new and best coding practices and optimise application for maximum speed and scalability.
Collaborate with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes to achieve project goals.
Use appropriate tools to create comprehensive documentations for existing and new software products.
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