Job Description
We are pleased to announce the subject career opportunity within Technology (M-Pesa Africa) reporting to the Senior Manager-Software Engineering.
About M-Pesa Africa
M-Pesa, is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. From starting in 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked can make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer >50 million active customers financial services, enterprise, merchant, and retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion.
M-Pesa Africa is currently supporting 6 markets and scaling with a mission to build a ONE M-Pesa, the largest FinTech and digital ecosystem in Africa by 2025.
Our Culture Pillars: Customer Focused; Innovation; Experiment & Be bold; Teamwork
Role Description
To work in an agile team, building engaging functional systems that maximize customer experience and revenue. Responsible for development against a product backlog, participating in planning, designing, and building features, assuring quality, deploying across environments, and supporting effective operations.
What you will be doing
• Develop end-to-end digital products utilizing technologies and tools such as Java / Maven, Python, C ++, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk and Apigee API.
• Develop and utilize CICD Pipeline and Automation technologies and tools such as Azure Pipeline, GitHub, JFrog, Jenkins, Ansible and Liquibase
• Work with the cloud computing teams to build and run scalable applications as public, private, and hybrid clouds using Cloud Native tools such as ASW Pipeline.
• Demonstrate ideas, products, and features in iteration reviews
• Create new ideas and demonstrate them.
• Work with agile Release Trains
• Ensure commitments are met
• Work in an agile delivery framework using tools like Jira and Confluence
• Hands-on delivery to the highest quality and fixing issues both during development and on production.
• Innovative and open-minded.
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Deploy new code, updates, and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support, including root cause analysis for production errors
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit
Competencies you require for the role
Working With Others
• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction
• Identifies people’s needs, interests, and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make
• Communicates simply to excite and engage people
• Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively
• Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks
Operational Excellence
• Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity
• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement
• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end
• Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems, and policy to solve problems
Creativity and Innovation
• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems
• Takes risks and pushes what is possible
• Experiments with unorthodox approaches
Business Know-how
• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust
• Balances current and future needs
• Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional, and ethical standards
Working With Change
• Responds flexibly to changing situations
• Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance
Project and Programme Management
• Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality, and business benefit
• Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies, and synergies
• Evaluates progress, mitigates risks, and addresses issues
Architecture and Design
• Translates business and customer requirements into technology requirements
• Defines architecture and design of systems and solutions to meet current and future business needs
Service and solution development
• Develops systems, services, and solutions to agreed specifications
Testing and Evaluation
• Defines test cases and acceptance criteria based on user requirements
• Reports and interprets test results Assesses the effectiveness of tests and testing tools
Implementation and integration
• Installs, configures, integrates, and optimizes systems, services, and solutions
QUALIFICATIONS
Apply if you have:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• At least 3 years’ experience in coding in a non-university setting.
• Experience with technologies and tools such as Java / Maven, Python, C ++, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk and Apigee API.
• Experience with CICD Pipeline and Automation technologies and tools such as Azure Pipeline, GitHub, JFrog, Jenkins, Ansible and Liquibase
• Strong understanding of end-to-end API and microservice architecture and the ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms end-to-end
• Strong understanding of SOAP, Rest APIs and Apigee APIs.
What you can expect from us:
• We believe in a fair and robust interview process
• We have a robust flexible total reward scheme
• Dedicated support and mentoring/coaching
• Opportunity to develop and progress – plus a solid dedication to work-life integration. It all means you’ll have everything you need to advance your career and achieve your full potential.
Note to Applicants
As part of our recruitment process, we will request the below documentation which will be required as soft copies at a later stage of the process.
• An updated CV with a confirmation of three referees- 2 must be professional and must have supervised you at some point, the other referee can be a colleague in the same professional field. If the referees are within the same organization that you are working with, you will need to confirm to us that it’s okay to contact them in writing (via email). This also includes all references within the Human Resources department.
• Scanned copy of certificate of good conduct from the CID (Less than 1 year old) - Applicable to Kenyans Only
• Scanned copy of certificate from Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) – Applicable to Kenyans Only
• Scanned copy of University Certificate
• Scanned copy of your National ID / Passport-Legal Form of Identification
How to Apply
If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your updated resume.
Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
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