Senior Backend Engineer at Nomba (Formerly Kudi)

Nomba – Launched in 2017 as “Kudi.ai”, a chatbot that responds to financial requests on social apps, Nomba spent its first five years empowering independent businesses to act as neighbourhood banks offering basic financial services such as cash withdrawal, transfer and bill payments to all Nigerians, especially those in underserved communities. We currently process more than $500m in payments monthly.

Today, with over 250 employees and more than 150,000 businesses on our platform, our vision is to enable economic prosperity by supercharging businesses to run efficiently and meet their goals. We are creating a distinct gateway into the digital economy for businesses of all sizes by providing them with access to everyday tools that simplify payments and drive their growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
About the Position:

Architect, design and develop mobile products.
Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements to existing mobile services.
Manage Junior Engineers, providing mentoring, code reviews, architectural design etc.
Perform performance review on direct reports and report details to line manager.
Take full responsibility for products while they are in development and issues that arise when they are in use.
You will work across different technology stacks and languages (mainly with a focus on Java and NodeJS);
You will have an end to end responsibility for many services from design to deployment;
You will join a fast-paced team of engineers
You will be a point of call for technical matters.

Requirements
About You:

Excellent programming skills
At least 5 years of experience developing in Java (Springboot or Dropwizard frameworks) & NodeJS in the industry
At least 5 years of experience developing with MongoDB or MySQL
Strong affinity for technical design, testing and system architecture
Experience working with containers
Excellent problem-solving skills
Strong System Architecture Design skills
Knowledge of fundamental computing topics, e.g. networking, databases, concurrency, parallelism, locking, algorithms, data structures, performance monitoring, optimisation, etc
Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, e.g DDD, TDD
Ability to work autonomously and lead technically
Ability to take initiative and get stuff done
Great communication skills.