Backend Engineer, Compliance at Flutterwave Full Time

Job Title: Backend Engineer, Compliance

Location: Lekki, Lagos (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Engineering – Compliance & Risk

The Role

• We are looking for a Backend Engineer – Java to design, implement, maintain and support software systems powering its products in financial domain within the Compliance team

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be Like

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization’s strategy, product, and service offerings.
• Research and implement best practices technology frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase reliability.
• Research and stay abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment industry.
• Career mentoring, coaching and development of a talented group of engineers.
• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment.
• Development of features and RESTful APIs with an event driven Microservice architecture.
• Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements.
• Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
• Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
• Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles.
• Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as set up automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability.
• Always maintain code and application security with adhering to data protection and privacy standards.
• Ensure personal information of customers, employees, and other individuals the company conducts business with is processed and protected in line with applicable data privacy policies, privacy laws, and global best practices.

Required Competency and Skill set to be a Waver

• 3+ 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.