Senior Platform Developer (FT005)

Fintech
Nigeria
2 September, 2024
Full Time Hybrid On-site Remote
Application ends: 30 September, 2024
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Job Description

Our Client is a pan-African digital bank focused on serving Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. Carbon transformed retail finance with the launch of its digital app in Nigeria and is focused on democratizing opportunity beyond finance for consumers and small and medium enterprises. From our headquarters in Lagos, and offices in London and Nairobi our expansion plans will position us in 6 more countries in the North and West of Africa in the next 2 years as we continue to focus on providing access to financial services to the “Next Billion” starting in Africa.

As a backend Platform Engineer, you’ll get to work across a wide range of systems and environments. As a team, you’re responsible for designing, building, and operating our Client’s physical data centres, all of their networking, the services they consume from AWS, and the software they run on top like Kubernetes, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and Terraform. They’re investing a lot of up-front effort in building scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting our Client’s continued growth.

You are

  • Passionate about Financial Services.
  • Familiar with some of our Platform technologies or specialise in just one part.
  • You want to help build, scale and operate a platform to support a product that you (and everyone you know) use or will use every day.
  • Keen to learn more about new technologies and the arcane inner workings of the financial industry.
  • Comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity.
  • Interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software.

You have

  • Experience in building robust, maintainable, scalable applications
    Able to work comfortably in a team.
  • Experience building server-side applications using JavaScript (Node.js) and Java (Spring Framework).
  • Experience with VMs, containers and serverless computer platforms. (We use AWS for compute, e.g. EC2, ECS and Lambda)
  • Experience with networking, CDNs, HTTP and TCP/IP basics. (We use Cloudflare, AWS VPCs and many of our services implement JSON and/or GraphQL APIs)
  • Experience with operating systems, configuration management and “Infrastructure as Code”. (We use AMIs, Docker Images, Terraform)
  • Experience with monitoring applications (We use Amazon Cloudwatch, Datadog)
  • Experience with managing databases, caches and message queues. (We use Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis and Kafka)
  • Experience as a professional “DevOps”, “SRE” or “SysAdmin” roles
  • Experience working with programming languages (We mostly use NodeJS, Java or Scala but also Python, Javascript)
  • Ability to work with unfamiliar codebases, including internal, open-source and 3rd party code we depend on.
  • Knowledge of microservices (or SOA) and/or distributed systems.
  • Experience in Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and/or another automated testing.
  • Understanding of basic financial and accounting concepts.
  • Ability to write JavaScript in TypeScript and/or ES6.
  • Fluency in English both oral and written (B2-C1); any other language is a strong plus

They offer

  • A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team.
  • Potential to work in different geographies.
  • Health Insurance.
  • Life Insurance.
  • Career development & Growth.
  • We offer a remote working option for certain roles.

*Note: By submitting your application, you accept that iWIA will conduct pre-employment screening such as reference and screening checks.Senior

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