Senior Software engineer
TeamApt is a financial technology company digitizing Africa’s real economy by building a financial ecosystem for businesses, providing them with all the payment, banking, credit and business management tools they need to succeed.
Engineering at TeamApt is an inspired, customer-focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. Our infrastructure runs on some of the cool tools that excite infrastructure engineers - kubernetes, docker etc. We also make business decisions based on the large stream of data we receive daily, so we work daily with big data, perform data analytics and build models to make sense of the noise and give our customers the best experience. If this excites you, it excites us too and we would love to have you.
Responsibilities
Translates product requirements into architectural documents and diagrams
Maintains architectural documents and ensures it is always updated to reflect the current state of the application.
Makes architectural decisions with respect to any feature that’s to be added to an application
Ensures that the architectural direction of an application is in line with the strategic direction of the product.
Performs code reviews and ensures efficient code engineering
Ensures applications are implemented using software engineering best practices
Responsible for the stability and reliability of products under his/her purview
Creates and enforces processes that improves developer efficiency and productivity
Participates in the screening of engineers for hire
Provides mentorship for young engineers.
Requirements
At least 5 years proven experience as a software architect or Lead Software Engineer
Experience in software development and coding in Java Programming Language
Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture
Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods
Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript and UI/UX design
Understanding of software quality assurance principles
A technical mindset with great attention to detail
High quality organizational and leadership skills
Outstanding communication and presentation abilities
Minimum of post secondary school qualification/diploma
Stack
Java (latest versions)
Spring and Spring Boot
Docker and Kubernetes
PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic search
Microservices architecture on AWS
