Latest Vacancies at an American Company - Black Pen Recruitment

Job Description

• As the Head of Software Engineering you will make an extremely high impact on a small, fast scaling team.
• You'll have the ability to help build a product used by thousands of people while taking full ownership of the product.
• They are looking for someone who has experience not only with their tech stack in a successful FinTech company, but also with agile methodologies and web development.
• Top candidates are clear communicators who are highly self-motivated; have an entrepreneurial and business development background who are  eager to collaborate, exchange knowledge, apply new skills and pitch in for whatever the team needs to ship new code.
• Previous experience within start-up and fintech industries is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and own the architecture and implementation of features
• Provide guidance and assist in helping knock down walls and clear path towards work completion
•  Lead a group of engineers and cross-functional team members in the implementation of new and existing features
• Provide clear and concise communication regarding feature development statuses to the team and stakeholders
• Plan, supervise and manage releases for the work the squad is performing
• Empower team members - including other developers as well as Technical Support and QA - through technical mentoring, contributions to the team's documentation, libraries, and providing automation for manual tasks where appropriate
• Define and adhere to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices
• Ensure quality by performing thorough testing and leveraging peer reviews for your work and the work of cross functional teams
• Help scope, estimate, and prioritize work
•  Embrace and demonstrate our values: humility, creativity, and independence
• Write and maintain clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for the future (and present) of the company’s platform
• Participate in mandatory weekly call.

Requirements

• 5+ Previous experience as Head of Engineering within financial markets
• Previous experience in the FinTech, cryptocurrency or start up industry required
• Solid experience with Vue.JS, NodeJS and Flutter
• Previous experience as Senior Full Stack Developer within financial markets
• Experience in a software development environment, with capability in back-end development and/or depth of experience with at least one modern front-end framework (React, Vue , AngularJS, etc.)
• Experience working in AWS, with a strong desire to further one’s skills
• Experience driving technical projects, prioritizing work, identifying dependencies, facilitating technical decisions and cross-functional team discussions
• Experienced in designing and implementing application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, maintainable, and performant
• Ability to work independently while also putting an emphasis on mentorship of those around you
• Comfortable collaborating closely with product managers and designers, providing estimates or product ideas that will influence your team's roadmap
• Being a thoughtful communicator - some teams are partially or fully distributed so effective written communication is key.

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Job Description

• As the DevOps Team Lead you will be part of the platform engineering team and will partner with engineers to ensure scalability and reliability is designed and implemented from the start in our products.
• On a day to day you will ensure that we can continuously deploy highly available and scalable services that can be used by millions of customers each day.

Responsibilities

• Establish trust with senior leaders and business by aligning your priorities with theirs, providing timely, accurate, and succinct status updates, and helping others when needed.
•  Ensure application uptime and performance by implementing and using extensive metrics to identify issues before they impact our customers.
• Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical aspects of the system to ensure SLAs are met as well as provide proactive notifications of possible issues for all systems.
• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Identify underlying root causes and provide recommendations or solutions for long term permanent fixes to critical production issues.
• Evaluate problems or opportunities, architect the right solutions, lead production implementations, and handle our critical services.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience leading software developers or site reliability engineers building customer-facing software applications or site reliability tools.
• Experience with distributed, scalable microservice-based architectures.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS architecture and services (Serverless, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, MQTT, S3, Route 53, Github Actions, Cloudwatch).
• In-depth understanding and working experience with CI/CD principles & practices.
• Solid grasp of performance monitoring methodologies and tools for AWS services.
• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems.
• Experience leading solutions and design discussions, communicating roadmaps, and mentoring others.
• Exposure to Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.
• Experience with large scale production environments and infrastructure.

Remuneration
Salary + Benefits.

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Job Reference: 2021-22336
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers

Job Responsibilities

• Assist the Head of Electrical Maintenance in the provision of technical support to the site maintenance teams for electrical / HVAC equipment and systems.
• Supervise the development and planning of minor electrical modifications and improvement projects, to ensure safe, timely and cost effective execution in accordance with company standards and specifications.
• Prepare scope of work for approved work programs ensuring that all relevant operating procedures and safety regulations are clearly outlined.
• Prepare bill of material for electrical work and ensure that all necessary materials and equipment are available as and when required.
• Prepare scope of work and calls for bids and issue these to contractors invited to tender for electrical works to be performed.
• Ensure that the procurement of electrical/HVAC materials and equipment matches the project objectives.
• Support the lead Electrical Engineer in the management of the electrical detailed engineering activities.
• Supervise execution of electrical / HVAC modification works at site by external contractor ensuring that the proper procedures are followed and that all modifications are properly documented and carried out according to stated standards.
• Assist with the analysis of equipment malfunctions and makes recommendation for repair and future preventive action.           
• Assist with the preparation of the preventive maintenance schedule for electrical/HVAC plant and equipment.
• Ensure that the planned preventive maintenance is carried out as planned.
• Monitors and updates materials MRP data, review stock quantities, usage and consumption to minimize the stock value whilst ensuring that all spare parts are available for routine, breakdown and shutdown maintenance.
• Support the Head Electrical Engineer in the preparation of company’s estimate and yearly budget plans and follows up on any budget variation or reconciliation issues with NAPIMS.
• Troubleshoot complex or recurring electrical problems which require technical analysis and resolution with the help of other departments, vendors or original equipment manufacturers and recommend sound and cost-effective solutions.
• Administer the electrical/HVAC planned preventive program, to ensure that the maintenance tasks undertaken are adequate
• to prevent unplanned equipment failure.
• Liaise with vendors and the original equipment manufacturers for all queries regarding maintenance, modifications, spare parts, drawings, and the resolution of technical problems.
• Ensure that all drawings, plans, manuals and Maintenance Equipment Log Book (MELB) are up-to-date and “as-built” and directs draftsmen to carry out all corrections and reflect any alterations, modifications and additions to electrical equipment system.
• Review and check work completed by contractors ensures compliance with work is satisfactorily completed, make necessary corrections, and submit to the Maintenance Methods Engineer for endorsement

Job Profile

• B.Sc. Engineering Degree in Electrical or Electrical / Electronic Engineering.
• Minimum of 15 years experience working with electrical plant and equipment within an Oil and gas or
• Petrochemical environment.
• Good knowledge of electrical HV and LV systems.
• Technical reporting, good mathematical skills and basic computer software skills.

Requirements:

• 10 years or more.
• H2 B2 Electrical.

We Offer

• We offer a variety of stimulating and evolving experiences.

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Job Description

• Are you an experienced OTC Business Developer?
• Our Client is looking to hire an OTC Business Developer with experience in the financial services industry, to join their exciting remote team.
• Top candidates are clear communicators who are highly self-motivated; eager to collaborate, exchange knowledge and apply new skills to proactively seek out weaknesses in the environment.

Responsibilities
As an OTC sales Trader, you'll need to:

• Identifying and reaching out to institutional client leads through cold calling
• Collaborate with marketing and sales team
• Researching on market & competitor trends in the crypto institutional space;
• Drafting and closing client or partnership agreements
• Maintaining ongoing contact with institutional clients, keeping track of client feedback and recommending product improvements.
• Work closely in a cross-functional team environment coordinating with multiple team leads to utilize resources in delivering the OTC needs
• Work closely with Head of OTC operations to define and develop detailed product and business requirements.

Requirements

• +5 years of experience in sales in finance (Stock broking/Crypto/Insurance)
• Experience with B2B Cold calling 
• Knowledge of the Crypto Industry
• African network base (Able to deal with different cultures pan Africa)
• Fintech experience or network base (Payment providers etc.)
• Have to have an entrepreneurial mind
• A proactive results driven person
• Able to work independently and execute tasks with intuition, based on broad instructions/ objectives from superiors
• Time-management and organisational skills to manage a variety of tasks and meet deadlines
• The ability to multitask and prioritise your workload
• Excellent attention to detail
• An ability to work under pressure, particularly when dealing with threats and at times of high demand.

Remuneration
Salary + Benefits.