Platform Engineers at mSurvey

Job description

We are excited to be hiring more platform engineers as a result of our steady growth trajectory. The platform engineers will be responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of local businesses in Africa and beyond. Our platform engineers are passionate about their work, focussed and goal driven with a strong desire to achieve skill of mastery level.

As a Platform Engineer, you will build various aspects of mSurvey infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale. Specific responsibilities include:

• Closely monitoring all platform related production systems
• Proactively correcting, improving and optimising the mSurvey platforms
• Developing best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests
• Working with Data Scientists to develop rich value added features
• Working with DBA to create an ETL and Data Warehouse system
• Working with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability
• Developing and maintaining a world class public API
• Periodically performing On-Call duty
• Analysing requirements thoroughly and developing solutions that solves the true customers' pain
• Designing and challenging system design with peers
• Performing testing and unit testing for delivering quality work
• Acquiring technical skill and knowledge continuously and aggressively
• Properly documenting development work completed

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) or related engineering discipline
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and distributed systems
• Loves building things and shipping them, truly making them work in the best way possible
• At least 3 years experience with Java server-side programming
• Individuals with a love for the African continent who want to be part of the team driving a business revolution

Added Advantage

• Advanced knowledge of JAVA, JVM Runtime, and JVM performance tuning
• Open Source project contributions
• Unix systems programming experience