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Reporting to the Delivery 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%.

Responsibilities

Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
Design and develop scalable microservices using Java, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Django, Flask, and Go.
Build responsive front-end applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and frameworks including React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, and Nuxt.js.
Deliver end-to-end full-stack solutions leveraging microservices and micro-frontend architectures.
Develop and implement new financial technology solutions aligned with approved solution designs and business requirements.
Participate in solution architecture, technical design, and platform capacity planning for new digital services.
Conduct functional, performance, security, and automated testing using TDD practices to ensure high-quality software delivery.
Troubleshoot, debug, optimize, and enhance existing systems to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.
Drive CI/CD automation, release management, and change management processes to support efficient deployments and operational excellence.
Collaborate within Agile and Scrum environments using tools such as Jira and Confluence while contributing to code reviews and continuous process improvement.
Support financial systems evolution, infrastructure integration, and platform modernization initiatives to achieve high availability, scalability, and innovation targets

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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