You’re excited about this opportunity because you will

• You like to put your people and teammates first; you bring your most empathetic self to work.
• You like to take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes using data to guide your decisions
• You’ve already embraced DevOps is a culture, and you know that teams delivering code, infrastructure, and operational support can give the best results.
• You know how to empower teams to deliver their best work.
• Working in a team makes you happy and you like collaborating with other teams to grow and improve the department and wider business.

We’re excited about you because you have experience with

• You have experience in building microservices, or high availability event driven platforms
• You’ve gained experience architecting and designing end to end systems.
• Have commercial experience with C#.NET you’ve shipped high-quality backend code into production.
• Ideally have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools
• With a DevOps culture
• Ideally have knowledge of the financial services industry and the African market
• Understand that people's problems are the hardest problems.
• Challenge the status quo but understand pragmatic decisions.
• Enjoy working with cross-functional teams and collaborating with leads and product managers to deliver change that improves our customers’ lives.
• Come to work to learn and share your knowledge, ideas, and thought processes to solve the challenges ahead of you.
• We embrace a DevOps culture, so when joining us you’ll be empowering your teams to not only ship code, but to own the whole cycle from ideation to production support.

Our stack

• We primarily use .NET for our backend and Kotlin for our Android apps
• Our teams use some flavour of Scrum where they keep track of their work in Azure DevOps, which we also use for our CI/CD
• Our cloud provider is Azure, where our microservices are hosted in Azure Kubernetes Services
• We are building a whole new set of microservices based on Event-Driven Architecture patterns
• We are a team of passionate product-focused engineers committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel value

Software Engineering Team Lead