Software Developer at XL Africa Group

How your skills and passion will come to life at XL

• Working closely with the Head ICT and IT team to aid with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure.
• Innovate, develop, maintain and contribute to the existing XL codebase and its associated applications.
• Improve our overall system development process via process improvements.
• Optimise application performance and test coverage.
• Deliver presentations demonstrating application feature delivery.
• Work with our product/BD team to refine product requirements.
• Feasibility and effort estimations.
• Provide support to our customers including triaging any issues.

Requirements

What we are looking for

• Seasoned professional with at least 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Preferably someone who has worked as a Team Lead for 3-5 years in a financial ecosystem, Fin-tech or any other related industry..
• Significant experience in a similar role
• Proficiency in HTML and CSS.
• Proficiency in JavaScript and/or its other frameworks
• Proficiency in PHP, A good Knowledge of Laravel Framework Preferred.
• Familiarity with Linux systems and commands.
• Good knowledge of source control using Git.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum.
• Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on the cloud.
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of databases systems, especially MySQL.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.
• Knowledge of Graphics would be an added advantage
• A strong and flexible work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desired

• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review code of others.
• An experience with scripting language; Python.
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes.