Architect at Jumo World

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

Essential

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Hands on experience with the design and development of high volume, highly reliable services
• Ability to travel for meetings and training to countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Ghana
• 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
• Strong track record of personal leadership and initiative
• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and designs

Desirable:

• Understanding of basic financial and accounting concepts
• 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.