Architect at Jumo World

The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to build a high volume, highly reliable platform while demonstrating technical leadership for more junior developers. You 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 fastpaced 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 requiremen
• Lead small teams of engineers.
• Drive agile project planning process
• Mentor junior engineers
• Make Jumo a destination for world class engineering talent

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field Understanding of basic financial and accounting concepts.

Experience

• 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
• Hands on experience with the design and development of high volume, highly reliable services
• 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.

Skills, knowledge and competencies

• Strong track record of personal leadership and initiative
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and designs
• Self starter
• Problem solver
• Fast learner Leader
• Resilience
• Can do attitude
• Inquisitive and eager to learn
• Sense of humor
• Collaborative
• Ability to travel for meetings and training to countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Ghana