Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 13, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About company:
Pezesha is an online marketplace for business loans. We connect MSMEs to affordable working capital and other financial services through a collaborative approach with capital providers. We have an ambitious growth plan to target 100,000 SMEs over the next 2 years across Africa by enabling them with affordable working capital. We are operational in Kenya and Ghana and in 2022 scaling across other markets in East and West Africa. It is an incredibly exciting time to join us as we enter our next phase of growth!
Visit our website: https://pezesha.com/ for more information.
Pezesha has a team of 25+ staff and combined with the board members they bring more than 20+ years of market, regulatory and strategy combined experiences with successful Fintech startup exits in the past.

Primary job description:
We are looking for a Software & DevOps Senior Engineer to join our rockstar tech team in supporting different teams in the day to day operations by;
• Transform technical designs and notes into code
• Collaborate with our existing team in implementing and managing our end to end credit & data platforms
• Managing multiple countries APIs and technical implementations and product strategy
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Maintain and scale our new Observability Infrastructure
• Implement our scale strategy and tighten our system security
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Lead a lean team of other software developers in planning and ensuring sprints are delivered on time
• Documentation
• Ensure Quality assurance and testing
• Collaborate with data and operations teams in ensuring our customer needs are met
• Technical training to teams and partners

Required Skills and Experience:
• At least 5 years of dimensional programming be it in PHP using Laravel or codeIgniter framework or Python
• Advanced knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity.
• At least 4 years experience in Javascript and working with frameworks such as Angular JS and UX
• At least 4 experience in backend programming with Java (server side)
• At least 4 years experience with SQL
• Experience with Git source control
• Experience with developing RESTful APIs
• Experience building and scaling observability/monitoring systems
• Experience with third-party API integrations
• Experience in troubleshooting and debugging tools
• At least 3 experience in Dev Operations with GCP
• Added advantage: experience in data science, cyber security
• At least 3 experience in leading internal tech teams
• Ability to keep up with software development trends and innovation.

Qualifications:
• Integrity- upholds high degree of honesty and values to be trusted with high value transactions processing and support
• Self-Drive: Willing to go an extra mile and find solutions to problems quickly to support all teams
• Proactive- Make things happen and solve problems without being reminded because they care about the company’s goals and ensuring smooth service delivery
• Leader - Take ownership and responsibility of tasks
• Detailed - Think through the proposed design (solution) approach and documentation before coding
• Disciplined - Estimate and communicate the duration of time to complete tasks
• Agile - Move quickly and easily to resolve issues. Look at short-term approaches that satisfy immediate needs and plan for long term approaches that are more robust
• Humble - Willing to listen and learn
• Communication skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in addressing issues to partners and teams while ensuring SLA on urgent issues are met on time

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Please send your CVs and cover letter to jobs@pezesha.com. Kindly indicate the title of the job on the subject header of the email (REF 2022/Software & DevOps Senior Engineer). Please also state your salary expectations. The applicants who do not indicate THE REF NO and job title will be automatically disqualified. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
In your application kindly add/attach the information below to jobs@pezesha.com 
• At least one Object-Oriented project that you have worked on:
• Send a URL to the live website
• Send the source code as a zip file or as a repository URL
• Attach your up to date CV
• Interviews will be on a rolling basis until January 25th 2022.

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