Lead Software Engineer - Immediate Joiners Only

Role & responsibilities

As a Backend software developer/Engineer, you will interact with the engineering team to solve problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture of our growing products. This will involve working on our existing codebase along with new projects. Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will be felt immediately. All teams at AADL are involved in every part of our development life cycle.

• Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems
• Own the entire development lifecycle as you prototype, create, optimise, test, launch, and refine ● Build features that will reach millions of users
• Play a critical role in ensuring modular and scalable design and architecture of Backend Applications
• Keeping up to date with best industry practices and lead adopting new technologies
• Set high standards for monitoring and getting to know challenges faced by customers and improving the experience
• In nutshell you will "Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy, Debug. Repeat!"

Preferred candidate profile

B.E./B.Tech in Computer science or Information Technology with Demonstrated experience of 6+ yrs in Backend Java development

● Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals object oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, and complexity analysis

● Experience in developing RESTful APIs

● Strong understanding on both Monolithic and Micro Services architectures. Hands-on experience in developing and deploying Micro Services components preferably using Spring Boot ● Experience with version control system such as Git & BitBucket

● Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.

● Nice to have Jenkins and CI/CD Knowledge

● Knowledge on Postman and SoapUi

● Knowledge on build tools like Maven & Gradle

● Lastly, its important to have fun! Bringing a sense of humor and camaraderie to the team allows for good relationships and communication to flourish.