EMPREGO

Senior Backend Engineer - Java

Flutterwave-Lekki, Nigeria

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) to make and receive payments in a convenient, borderless manner.

The role: Flutterwave is looking for Backend Engineers - Java to design, implement, maintain and support software systems powering its products in financial domain.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be Like

  • In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings.
  • Research and implement best practices technology frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase reliability.
  • Research and stay abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment industry.
  • Career mentoring, coaching and development of a talented group of engineers.
  • Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment.
  • Development of features and RESTful APIs with an event driven Microservice architecture.
  • Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements.
  • Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.

Required competency and skill set to be a Waver:

  • 5+ years of experience with Java / JEE / Spring Boot and associated technologies.
  • Must have hands-on experience on java 8, multithreading, Jvm tuning, performance improvements.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Understanding of Design Patterns.
  • Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies.
  • Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies.
  • Excellent organizational and people management skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and quality assurance skills.
  • Excellent time management and analytical skills.
  • Excellent DevOps knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP.

Nice to have:

  • NodeJs experience
  • Understanding of Docker/K8s
  • Kafka Experience