Engineer – Backend Microservices Job Safaricom
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Reporting to the Development Lead Fintech – Financial Services IT, the role holder responsibilities will include financial services system development, support, capacity planning and technology evolution to attain a service availability of 99.999%.
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Responsibilities
- Develop microservices using Java/Spring, Apache Camel, Django, Flask, and Go.
- Build front-end applications with HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, and frameworks such as AngularJS, React, Next.js, Nuxt.js, and Vue.js.
- Perform full-stack development including microservices and micro-frontend architectures.
- Design, plan, and implement new financial software solutions based on approved solution designs.
- Conduct software testing (functional and non-functional) including monitoring, performance, and security testing using TDD and automation.
- Maintain and optimize systems through troubleshooting, debugging, upgrades, documentation, and system improvements.
- Manage development lifecycle processes including code reviews, release and change management, CI/CD automation, and Agile/Scrum delivery using tools like Jira and Confluence.
- Support platform reliability and evolution through infrastructure evaluation, capacity planning, system integration, and initiatives to achieve high availability (up to 99.999%) and improved delivery quality.
Qualifications
- Degree in one of the following: Computer Science, Telecommunications; Electronic Engineering; IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development
- 2 years of work experience as an engineer in Financial Technology or a telecommunications environment.
- Knowledge and experience on coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript, html, css, type script) and frameworks/systems (e.g., Spring framework, AngularJS, React, Git, Apache camel, Node Js and GraphQL.)
- Experience and Strong understanding of both JSON and SOAP
- Experience in securing APIs using JWT, Oauth2, SAML, Spring security etc.
- Knowledge in Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals is an added advantage.
- Knowledge in DevSecOps, CI/CD and version control (Git)
- Good understanding of writing unit tests.
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases i.e., Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
- Experience in mobile money systems.
- Knowledge in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Huawei or GCP).
- Knowledge in container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, openshift container platform etc.)
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