Senior Software Engineer at Jumo World

Jumo needs a smart, dynamic execution focused Senior Software Engineer who can help scale a service to meet the needs of rapidly growing, high volume service offering. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to build a high volume, highly reliable platform while demonstrating technical leadership for more junior developers.   The ideal candidate will be a strong technical leader who is able to operate in a high performing team, can creatively balance high quality delivery with customer focus to meet business needs, has excellent communications skills and a proven track record of delivering results in an aggressive and fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and support Jumo's platform 
• Actively participate in and contribute to architectural and technical stack choices 
• Recommend and implement technical solutions in a phased approach to migrate customers and add partners on to the Jumo platform 
• Diagnose and correct problems with production services 
• Interact with Product Managers, Channel Managers, partners and business stakeholders to define platform requirements 
• Lead small teams of engineers. Drive agile project planning process 
• Mentor junior engineers 
• Make Jumo a destination for world class engineering talent 

Skills and competencies

Qualifications

Essential:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field

Desirable:

• Understanding of basic financial and accounting concepts

Experience

Essential:

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing and testing software services
• 7+ years of experience with Ruby, Python, Java or Scala
• 5+ years of experience with Linux or MacOS
• 5+ years of experience using Agile development methodologies

Desirable:

• Experience integrating real-time machine learning/AI/decision optimization in a big-data (HDFS+Map-Reduce) environment is highly desirable
• Experience working in Amazon Web Service environments (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk) is highly desirable

  Personal Aptitude & Skills

• Strong track record of personal leadership and initiative
• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and designs
• Sense of humor
• Ability to travel for meetings and training to countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Ghana

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