Senior Software Engineer (Golang) at AjoCard Limited

AjoCard Limited is a fintech company that makes it easy for consumers to operate digitally. The company has designed, built, and launched technical solutions to reduce the friction in everyday financial transactions, whether it is to improve savings for everyday consumers removed from financial services, or banked consumers without access to their financial transaction platforms due to location. AjoCard enables these transactions everywhere using a combination of technology (such as software and mobile POSs) and expanding agency platforms.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• As an AjoCard Senior Software Engineer, you’ll contribute to the entire Software Development Lifecycle in a fast-paced agile environment with a high focus on scalable design and system architecture.
• You’ll be expected to review, understand and enhance the existing ecosystem design, ensuring that it evolves to meet future needs. Being part of our team, you will see how your code performs in production, the value it brings, and use that insight to continuously improve.
• Our roadmap includes the addition of business features, distributed computing, API design improvements, microservices, serverless computing, configuration as code, observability optimization, containers, DB and ORM performance optimization, build/deploy optimization, SQL, and NoSQL DBs, and improvements for CI and CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Be part of self-managed cross-functional agile teams.
• Engage in knowledge-sharing within your team as well as beyond.
• Be involved in all the aspects of the SDLC, including system architecture.
• Review, understand, and enhance the existing ecosystem design to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Develop the latest business and technical features.
• Use and contribute to code quality standards and best practices.
• Manage and contribute to the development of CI and CD pipelines.
• Develop POCs/MVPs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working on Golang / NodeJS (or with other similar programming languages) based projects.
• System architecture experience: able to review, understand, and enhance existing architecture and ecosystem designs.
• Experience with modern engineering practices such as clean code, TDD, refactoring.
• Unit testing knowledge (e.g., Jest, Mocha, TDD).
• Knowledge of scalable and resilient application architecture.
• Enthusiasm and passion for working in a team as well as solving problems independently.

We hope you have:

• Cloud computing knowledge: e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Serverless.
• Database experience: relational/NoSQL.
• Experience working in Agile (Scrum) teams.
• Experience in cloud-native application development.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.