Junior Backend Engineer at Primera Africa Finance Group

Job Type: Full-Time
Experience: 5 years
Location: Lagos

Company: Primera Africa Finance Group

Description

We are looking for engaged and enthusiastic Backend Engineers to join our team. The Back-End Developer will be responsible for designing and developing new features, as well as maintaining and upgrading existing tools.
The Back-End Developer will play an integral part in the project life cycle and work closely with team members from the initial concept to final release.

Duties & Responsibilities
What you will do:

Undertake software design and development activities as part of a project team
Provide expert technical assistance and mentoring to staff
Review work to ensure completion criteria are met
Undertake tasks within agreed time-frame
Assist in assessing the performance of staff that have undertaken activities under your direct supervision
Collaborate with QA and DevOps team on continuous integration and delivery as well as automated and manual testing to ensure good quality solutions are delivered
Participate in an agile delivery process, research and recommend new solutions

Technical Requirements & Qualifications
What you will bring:

HND in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another technical discipline
Minimum 5 years demonstrated industry experience in the development of software systems and components.
Proven experience building enterprise solutions with Java 8, Hibernate, SpringMVC, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
Proficiency in Frontend technologies – Angular, React, JavaScript
Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases – MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis
Experience developing restful APIs, MicroServices and other distributed systems.
Expertise in using java build systems and DevOps tools – Maven, Gradle and Docker.
Experience writing unit and integration tests for large scale projects.
Experience working with Java EE application containers – Wildfly
Minimum 3 years of experience developing enterprise java applications using Spring.

Nice to Have:

Who You are:

Excellent People Skills – Incredibly friendly & happy. People love to be around you because you have such positive vibes.
Technical Background. Can comfortably communicate with software developers about code and/or create code samples and demo apps that enable developer users.
Extend tutorials developed in certain frameworks to other relevant frameworks.
Attention to detail – Organized and diligent with reports. Ready to learn skills that will benefit you for the rest of your life, personally & professionally
Coachability – Tremendous desire to learn about FinTech and constantly improve in a “no-egos” environment
Emotional Intelligence – Ability to read emotional cues, understand a customer’s needs, and navigate a conversation
An Interest in FinTech and Payments: If learning about how Payment Powers
Commerce in a soon to be Unicorn is of great value to you – you’re in the right place
Big Picture Thinker. Have a strong vision for where the industry is going, and stay on top of new technologies, stacks, build proof-of-concept prototypes to try out new ideas or stitch together end-to-end solution

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@primera-africa.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.