Senior 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

• 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.
• Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
• Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
• Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
• Good experience with databases and Schema design