Africa Digital Group is a private tech company that provides cutting-edge multi-cloud, Data and AI, Cyber Security and Productivity solutions across Africa and the Middle East. With strategic locations in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Dubai and South Africa, we’re dedicated to revolutionising the way businesses operate in the digital age.

We partner with class-leading hyperscalers to provide solutions that grow with your business, and we provide custom-built solutions on those platforms. We provide a wide variety of solutions from SaaS to custom-built modern applications for a range of customers in different industries, including telecommunications, fintech and gaming.

Africa Digital Group is looking for the following role for a customer in the Fintech industry.

Who our client is

Our client is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in Africa.

Since 2019, our client’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payments, credit and business management tools to help them succeed. Our client processed $182 billion in 2023, and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in Nigeria.

Why we need you

We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to design, develop and deploy software solutions.

Your responsibilities include gathering requirements, creating innovative solutions, defining and documenting architecture and system functionality for the team to implement and also contributing by writing code in various languages. You are familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from system analysis, design, implementation to tests and deployment.

Your experience in building distributed, highly available cloud-based platforms will be tested in our client’s high volume 24/7 environment.

Your wide knowledge of platforms, cloud and frameworks will be an asset to your team.

Ultimately, your role is to design and build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software that complies with coding standards and technical design.

Your role on the customer projects (but not limited to)

• Designing and creating innovative solutions to meet technical needs.

• Strong ability to derive solid architecture, design, and implementations from requirements and produce architecture and specification documentation.

• Developing project execution plans together with the delivery team.

• Executing the project plans together with the engineering team.

• Executing full lifecycle software development.

• Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code.

• Participating in agile ceremonies as part of a larger team.

• Monitoring system performance.

• Communicating key project data to team members and building cohesion among team members.

• Applying best practices and standard operating procedures.

• Automated Testing to ensure continuous quality deliverables.

Essential Requirements

• Extensive Experience in Web programming.

• Extensive Experience in Java (Spring Boot).

• Additional languages like GoLang, Python, Kotlin would be highly advantageous.

• Extensive Experience in OO JavaScript (Typescript), CSS 3 (TailwindCSS), HTML 5.

• Extensive Experience in one or more JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.).

• Extensive Experience developing and consuming REST based services.

• Extensive relational database & NoSQL design and complex querying experience.

• Extensive Experience working with message brokers (Kafka/Pulsar/RabbitMQ)

• Extensive Experience with use of cloud environments (Google, AWS, etc.)

• Extensive Experience working with Infrastructure (Kubernetes, Mesos, Zookeeper, Consul)

• Expert knowledge of Web Services and APIs using REST and JSON.

• Adhere to coding standards, version and source control, and task/bug tracking processes.

• Adhere to change management and defined SDLC (agile) processes.

• Extensive understanding of how applications work including security, session management, and best development practices.

• Hands-on experience with network diagnostics, network analytics tools.

• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills.

• Strong organisational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines.

• Ability to learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques.

Personal traits

• Team player.

• Humble.

• Hunger for knowledge.

• Hunger for mentoring and growing the engineering team's knowledge and skills.

• Outstanding communication skills.

• Organisational and time management skills.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Must have great attention to detail.

• Must demonstrate a high level of self-discipline, should be self-led and results oriented.

• Possess great interpersonal skills and develops enabling relationships with team members and customers.

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.