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Engineer – Backend Microservices at Safaricom PLC

posted 6 hours ago
Job Overview
Employment FullTime
Location Nairobi Kenya
Experience At least 2 years
Education Level Bachelor's Degree
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Job Description

Reporting to the Development Lead Fintech – Financial Services IT, the role holder responsibilities will include financial services system development, support, capacity planning and technology evolution to attain a service availability of 99.999%.

Responsibilities

  • Develop microservices using Java/Spring, Apache Camel, Django, Flask, and Go.
  • Build front-end applications with HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, and frameworks such as AngularJS, React, Next.js, Nuxt.js, and Vue.js.
  • Perform full-stack development including microservices and micro-frontend architectures.
  • Design, plan, and implement new financial software solutions based on approved solution designs.
  • Conduct software testing (functional and non-functional) including monitoring, performance, and security testing using TDD and automation.
  • Maintain and optimize systems through troubleshooting, debugging, upgrades, documentation, and system improvements.
  • Manage development lifecycle processes including code reviews, release and change management, CI/CD automation, and Agile/Scrum delivery using tools like Jira and Confluence.
  • Support platform reliability and evolution through infrastructure evaluation, capacity planning, system integration, and initiatives to achieve high availability (up to 99.999%) and improved delivery quality.

Qualifications

  • Degree in one of the following: Computer Science, Telecommunications; Electronic Engineering; IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development
  • 2 years of work experience as an engineer in Financial Technology or a telecommunications environment.
  • Knowledge and experience on coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, html, css, type script) and frameworks/systems (e.g., Spring framework, AngularJS, React, Git, Apache camel, Node Js and GraphQL.)
  • Experience and Strong understanding of both JSON and SOAP
  • Experience in securing APIs using JWT, Oauth2, SAML, Spring security etc.
  • Knowledge in Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals is an added advantage.
  • Knowledge in DevSecOps, CI/CD and version control (Git)
  • Good understanding of writing unit tests.
  • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases i.e., Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
  • Experience in mobile money systems.  
  • Knowledge in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Huawei or GCP).
  • Knowledge in container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, openshift container platform etc.) 
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