Java Backend Engineer (Financial Technology Firm)

Hiring: Java Backend Engineer (Financial Technology)

Location: Lagos (Mainland)

Job Type: Full Time

Compensation – Base Pay ranges BTW N750,000 – N1,000,000 Monthly Net Subject to quality and level of experience Other interesting benefits

About Company: Our client is a Nigerian payment company that provides cutting-edge payment technology that allows businesses and individuals to make and receive payments globally licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria as a Payment Solution Service Provider (PSSP).

The company is seeking to hire a Senior Software Backend engineer with a specialty in core Java or/and Spring booth to work with their backend engineering team to complement the technical skills needed to serve as a key contributor in building and maintaining its core infrastructure and product development launch and scale.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies. S/he should be able to work independently with little or no supervision, with excellent organization and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technical solutions from coding and release to production.
• Design and improve the maintainability of the code base through innovative design.
• Use technical skills to build amazingly exciting world-class products.
• Constantly communicate with diverse internal and external stakeholders in embracing agile practices.
• Seek to understand how the business works to identify risks (in code, features, and design).
• Diagnose complex issues across various levels of the stack.
• Understand the business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems.
• Work collaboratively to complete projects, showcase progress, and address problems.
• Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers within the Engineering team.
• Constantly improve to keep pace with innovations and technologies.
• Balance deep work with cross-team collaboration.
• Work alongside front-end developers to produce efficient and user-friendly systems.
• Work on other tasks as assigned by the Engineering Leadership.
• Write clean and scalable code to develop functional applications.

Key Requirements

• B.Sc/BA degree in Computer Science or any related field
• 7 years of cognate experience working with Java EE/Spring, with at least 3 years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer
• Knowledge of Object-oriented Programming concepts.
• Test-driven development (TDD) experience.
• Experience working with AWS, architecture, and design principles.
• Strong team leader and player, with the ability to improve knowledge and skills.
• Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude.
• Ability to work independently.

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