Technical Lead Engineer, Node.JS at Aza Finance

Job Summary

• We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference to the lives of those living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.
• Our development team is a group of skilled self-reliant engineers that have the ability to work together to solve complex problems and provide simple solutions for our customers. We are looking for a Technical Lead to join our rapidly growing team in one of our offices.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the CTO and Engineering Managers to aid with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure.
• Innovate, develop, maintain and contribute to the existing AZA codebase and its associated applications.
• Mentor, train and support engineers in order to develop our in-house engineering skills.
• 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 team to refine product requirements.
• Feasibility and effort estimations.
• Provide support to our customers including triaging any issues.

Requirements

• Seasoned professional with at least 10 years of experience in software engineering.
• Preferably someone who has worked as a Technical Lead for 3-5 years in a financial ecosystem or Fintech or financial institution.
• Minimum 3 years of providing leadership to the team.
• Significant experience in a similar role working with Node.js and NestJS or Express.
• Working knowledge of Javascript specifically React and JQuery.
• Good knowledge of using automated testing frameworks such as Jest or comparable and Cypress.
• 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 database systems, especially PostgreSQL.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.
• A strong and flexible work ethic.

Desired:

• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review code of others.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• One of the hottest, fastest scaling startups in Africa.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work -life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard.
• …… and more!!