Java Backend Engineer

**Hiring: Java Backend Engineer (Financial Technology)**

Location: Lagos (Mainland)

Job Type: Full Time

**Compensation** – Base Pay ranges BTW N750,000 – N1,000,000 Monthly Net Subject to quality and level of experience + Other interesting benefits

**About Company** : Our client is a Nigerian payment company that provides cutting-edge payment technology that allows businesses and individuals to make and receive payments globally licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria as a Payment Solution Service Provider (PSSP).

The company is seeking to hire a Senior Software Backend engineer with a specialty in core Java or/and Spring booth to work with their backend engineering team to complement the technical skills needed to serve as a key contributor in building and maintaining its core infrastructure and product development launch and scale.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies. S/he should be able to work independently with little or no supervision, with excellent organization and problem-solving skills.

**Responsibilities**

- Take ownership of technical solutions from coding and release to production. - Design and improve the maintainability of the code base through innovative design. - Use technical skills to build amazingly exciting world-class products. - Constantly communicate with diverse internal and external stakeholders in embracing agile practices. - Seek to understand how the business works to identify risks (in code, features, and design). - Diagnose complex issues across various levels of the stack. - Understand the business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems. - Work collaboratively to complete projects, showcase progress, and address problems. - Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers within the Engineering team. - Constantly improve to keep pace with innovations and technologies. - Balance deep work with cross-team collaboration. - Work alongside front-end developers to produce efficient and user-friendly systems. - Work on other tasks as assigned by the Engineering Leadership. - Write clean and scalable code to develop functional applications.

**Key Requirements** :

- B.Sc/BA degree in Computer Science or any related field - 7+ years of cognate experience working with Java EE/Spring, with at least 3 years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer - Knowledge of Object-oriented Programming concepts. - Test-driven development (TDD) experience. - Experience working with AWS, architecture, and design principles. - Strong team leader and player, with the ability to improve knowledge and skills. - Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude. - Ability to work independently.