M-Pesa Africa - Microservices Developer at Safaricom Kenya

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Microservices Developer for M-Pesa Africa will run with day-to-day standardized microservice development to ensure smooth and efficient service delivery that meets the expectations of the business. They will also perform application development duties which include but are not limited to specification, design, development, validation, documentation, and evolution of the new and current service applications; performance management; ensuring integrity of the web services; maintenance and fault management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writing and analyzing code for portions of a project/projects
• Inspect and test code
• Helping engineers fix and solve complex problems
• Work with stakeholders, product owners and technical leads to keep projects on track
• Influence and guide on DevSecOps best practices within M-PESA Africa Engineering framework and practices
• Influence and guide the team in making critical architectural, design and programming decisions
• Evangelize software engineering best practices across the team using M-PESA Africa Engineering values
• Design, test and rollout of running software services
• Run and enforce code reviews among the team

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications or related IT field
• 5+ years of experience in software development in a busy IT environment
• Hands on experience with microservices - Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms based on java - Spring boot framework is preferred
• Strong programming and technical skills. Extensive programming experience using Java (SpringBoot Framework), C#, Python 
• Strong problem-solving skills leveraging on data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in Agile Development/software life-cycle development (SDLC)