SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Our client a reputable fintech firm is looking to fill the role of a Senior Software Engineer.

Job Profile

To develop high quality reusable software component, for business to business integration, using international best practices and new best-in-class technologies, concepts, and philosophy

To design, code, test, analyse and manage software programs and applications that drive the company’s strategy

Reports to: Lead, Application Development

Location: Lagos

Job Description

Strategy & Planning

? Works with other software developers, the software architect and designers in conceptualising and developing new software programs and applications

? Plans own work in phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) for a variety of projects

? Assists in the preparation and documentation of software requirements and specifications

? Performs research on the requirements of software users and documents findings to serve

? Works closely with the Team Leader, Business Analyst and Product Owner for understanding the functional and system requirements

Acquisition & Deployment

? Conducts research on emerging application development software products, languages, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts

? Recommends, schedule, and performs software improvements and upgrades

? Operational Management

? Consistently writes, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications and PCIDSS standards

? Integrate software components into a fully functional software application.

? Write and execute unit tests for developed software applications.

? Perform peer to peer code reviews.

? Participate and contribute to software architectural design sessions.

? Maintain and implement source control & version management.

? Create technical documentation for all software applications.

? Deploy all developed application to the development environment for QA and Testing.

? Guide & follow through on developed software applications to ensure successful UAT and subsequent shipment.

? Works closely with the QA team to ensure quality and timely software development within his/her responsibilities

? Runs and monitors software performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging

? Administers critical analysis of test results and delivers solutions to problem areas

? Generates statistics and prepare and write reports for management and/or team members on the status of the programming process

? Monitor & manage project lifecycle on popular work management tool.

? Updates tasks on work management tool

? Ensures robust and sustainable enterprise social collaboration architecture for software development by monitoring matrices of the SOA, and fixing complaints/bugs logged by customers

? Assists in the development and maintenance of user manuals and guidelines for ease of use by the client/customers

? Installs software products for end users as required

? Creates and manages Application Programming Interface (API)

? Writes programming scripts to enhance functionality and/or appearance of company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary

? Removes code script from company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary

? Liaises with network administrators, systems analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems

Requirement

? Minimum of bachelor’s degree / HND in Computer/System/ Electrical/ Electronic Engineering/ Applied physics/ Computer Science or a related discipline

? Minimum of 5 years’ experience using Java and related technologies.

? Expert level in Java Programming using Java 8 and above

? Understand how to develop Enterprise Solutions

? Understanding of Microservices Architecture

? Hands on experience using Spring Boot Framework

? Hands On experience using Ci/CD

? Hands on experience with building cloud solutions

? Experience using ISO 8583

? Experience using ISO 20022

? Experience in development of Payment Solutions

? Understanding of Domain Driven Architecture

? Should be able to guide and Mentor Junior Developers

? Hands on experience with BDD Testing Framework

? Hands on experience with Junit, Mockito, Hamcrest and AssertJ

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV in Ms Word to: [email protected] using "Senior Software Engineer" as the subject of the mail.