Senior Software Engineer at Asante Financial Services Group

About the job
Main Purpose of the Job- (Job Summary)
Asante Financial Services Group is a Credit-Led Neo Bank that supports Africa’s growth through provision of financial services to growing businesses. Asante commenced operations in early 2018 and has grown to become a leading SME Digital Bank in the region. We’re seeking a full stack engineer who is ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries. Our ideal candidate has experience building products across the entire stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back end languages. You’ll be joining a small team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front end and back end architecture, and ultimately, deliver amazing global user experiences.

Main Responsibilities

1. Handle the design, architecture, development, code review, and testing of key applications in the following areas: Client facing applications, proof of concept prototypes, Pronto mobile app
2. Work closely with the product management and design teams to define feature requirements and deliver the product that materially impacts the business and improves the customer experience
3. In liaison with the other Engineers, Design and implement scalable web service APIs.
4. Spearhead Quarterly Code Reviews
5. Contribute and spearhead Asante’s strategy direction around enhancement of existing tech stacks and emerging one
6. Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
7. Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility
8. Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
9. Work closely with Asante Finance strategic partners to model integration options to Asante mobile solutions
10. Experience in distributed code repositories such as Gitlab
11. Work on and provide improvement inputs to Asante’s API Middleware
12. Help maintain code quality, organization and modularity by following sound development practices
13. In liaison with the strategic IT vendors, deliver across the entire app life cycle –concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
14. Work directly with key stakeholders eg. Asante Product Managers to conceptualize, build, test and realize products
15. Gather requirements around functionality and translate those requirements into elegant functional solutions
16. Build prototypes at tech scoping stage of projects
17. Working along the Engineering team to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps, post deployment
18. Work closely with Asante Back End Engineers to design and build of back end components; APIs, databases etc
19. Create compelling device specific user interfaces and experiences
20. Standardizing the platform and in some cases apps to deliver across multiple brands with minimal duplication of effort

Essential skills:

• Experience working and leading a team a minimum of 3 developers
• More than 3yrs years’ experience in software development (backend and frontend) within the Finance industry
• Strong OO design and programming skills in 2 of the following back-end languages or frameworks; Java spring boot and/or PHP Laravel
• Knowledge of Javascript frameworks for front end development
• Strong experience in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Knowledge of software design principles and fundamentals of architecture
• Experience building API driven interfaces
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience working with version control tools.
• Mobile Platforms exposure (Hybrid & Native) will be an added advantage

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Please note that resumes will be reviewed as soon as received. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.