Software Engineering- Internship at ImaliPay

About the role

ImaliPay is looking for a Intern- Software Engineer based in Nigeria with a focus on the backend and frontend to join the team of developers and support in building custom solutions to provide financial services to Gig Workers in Africa. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development lifecycle.

As an intern in this role, you will learn to build web-based systems with a keen focus on the backend and adherence to industry best standards. You should be comfortable with backend development technologies as well as the frontend stack. You would also be a customer-centric and team player.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with development teams, product managers to plan & prioritize, architecture, build, advance, and scale software solutions 

• Participate in strategic technical decisions related to technology, definition, and implementation of digital products

• Deliver high quality, testable, secure, readable, and documented software with a focus on the customer

• Develop system architecture, requirements specifications, modularize features, etc

• Advocate, advise and develop best industry standards such as CI/CD, Agile, responsive design, containerization, TDD, peer reviews, etc

• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

• Write documentation and provide technical training 

Requirements

• Awareness of multidisciplinary complex systems 

• Solid knowledge of backend technologies such as Java, Javascript, or other scripting languages

• Experience with Java Spring framework

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies: Docker & Kubernetes is a plus 

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills 

• Great attention to detail

• Willingness to learn new technologies 

• Solid understanding of CI/CD and code versioning tools