Overview

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) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

Job Position: Backend Engineer – Java

Job Location: Lekki, Lagos

Job Description

  • Flutterwave is looking for Backend Engineers – Java to design, implement, maintain and support software systems powering its products in financial domain.

Job Responsibilities

  1. In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization’s strategy, product, and service offerings.
  2. Research and implement best practices technology frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase reliability.
  3. Research and stay abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment industry.
  4. Career mentoring, coaching and development of a talented group of engineers.
  5. Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment.
  6. Development of features and RESTful APIs with an event driven Microservice architecture.
  7. Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements.
  8. Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
  9. Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
  10. Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles.
  11. Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as set up automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability.
  12. Always maintain code and application security with adhering to data protection and privacy standards.

Job Requirements

  • 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 Data structures and algorithms as well as creative skills to apply them in solving problems.
  • 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:

  1. NodeJs experience
  2. Understanding of Docker/K8s
  3. Kafka Experience.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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