Financial Systems Software Development Engineer at Safaricom Kenya

Brief Description

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%.

Key Responsibilities

• Software development for new financial solutions as per the approved solutions designs and to meet the industry best practices.
• Participate in design for new solutions.
• Software testing to meet both functional and non-functional requirements (monitoring, performance testing etc.)
• Document and maintain software functionality
• Document released software
• Participate in troubleshooting, debugging, upgrade and optimization of existing systems.
• Recommend and execute improvements on existing systems
• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with Software development standards.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Release and change management
• Contributing towards innovation initiatives.
• Undertake necessary measures to increase the quality of delivery and ensure zero major defects escape into production

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 (vendor or operator).
• Software development skills in Java, python.
• Knowledge of coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks/systems (e.g., Spring boot, AngularJS, Git, Apache camel)
• Knowledge in Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in Dev Ops
• Experience in mobile money systems.
• Knowledge in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Huawei or GCP). Certifications will be an added advantage
• Knowledge in container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes etc.)
• Proven Analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to work without supervision & meet tight deadlines/schedules.
• Good presentation skills required.
• Proactive & self-motivated.
• Good public relations, communication & interpersonal.