Lead, Platform Engineering Team at NowNow – Contec Global Group Full Time

Job Title: Lead, Platform Engineering Team

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About The Role

• As a Senior Engineer/Lead, Platform Engineering, you will develop reusable common services and platform components using various technologies. 
• You will collaborate with technical architects, technical managers, product managers, agile coaches and other engineers across the company on high impact capabilities and product features.
• You will design, build and own the platform capabilities development.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Understand the functional business requirements, translate into the technical design, do technical analysis, create conceptual approaches, do impact analysis, collaborate with the business analysts & product managers to clarify the doubts.
• Understand non-functional requirements spanning across security, scalability, reliability, availability and provide the technical design. Implement the design, build, test, deploy & support software components and applications.
• Implement the projects using the Agile Software Development Methodologies. Participate in the daily scrums and provide your incremental status, give demos as per the planned schedules
• Make use of the best practices for the development, validate and deploy components and modules. Contribute towards the best practices
• Provide the estimate of your works and tasks allocated to you and meet the deadlines as planned
• Do POC’s for the new capabilities, new products developments. Study the API’s, integrate with partners, clarify questions.
• Create domain specific platforms that provide services for developers internally and other third party partners.
• Lead modernization efforts by refactoring legacy Java systems and integrating with modern Node.js microservices.
• Ensure application security, performance, and scalability best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across multiple technology stacks.

Requirements
Skill Set:

• Worked in Fintech / Payments / Banking / Financial Services domain
• Very strong & deep understanding in Software Design Patterns, OOPS Concepts, SDLC, Code Management & Branching Concepts
• Experience in writing very robust, secure, reusable & scalable code
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (Express, NestJS preferred).
• Experience with microservices architecture and cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, GCP or Huawei).
• Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying, supporting technical components and services using Node.js and Java
• Experience in developing unit test cases leveraging associated libraries from Node.js and Java
• Experience using databases like Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
• Experience in building platform capabilities & applications using REST API’s, micro-services / event-driven/serverless architectures
• Experience in using Cloud platform services eg EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, SQS,SNS, Event Bridge, Redshift, StepFunction etc or equivalent services from other cloud providers.
• Experience using Agile Scrum, Jira, Confluence, User Stories, Story Point Estimates, Tasks Breakdown, Agile Ceremonies
• Experience in using Git, Bit-Bucket for source code management
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong communication skills and ability to mentor team members.

Salary
N1,000,000 – N2,000,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.