Software Engineering Manager Job at Aza Finance - Career Opportunity in Kenya
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Vacancy title:
Software Engineering Manager

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Computer Software , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

Aza Finance

Deadline of this Job:
21 June 2021  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 08, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:
Software Engineering Manager

Job Summary
We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference to the lives of those living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.
Our development team is a group of skilled self-reliant engineers that have the ability to work together to solve complex problems and provide simple solutions for our customers. We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in one of our offices.

Responsibilities
• Innovate, develop, maintain and contribute to the existing AZA codebase and its associated applications
• Work closely with the engineering leads to aid with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure
• Mentor, train and support other engineers in order to develop our in-house development skills
• Improve our overall system development process via process improvements
• Improve the delivery capacity of the team
• Optimise application performance and test coverage
• Deliver presentations demonstrating application feature delivery
• Work with our product team to refine product requirements including providing feasibility and effort estimations
• Provide support to our customers including triaging any issues

Requirements
Required
• 8 to 10 years’ experience in a similar role
• Good knowledge of working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Good knowledge of using automated testing frameworks such as RSpec
• Working knowledge of Javascript
• Good knowledge of source control using Git
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum
• Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on the cloud
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration
• Good knowledge of databases systems, especially PostgreSQL
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases
• A strong and flexible work ethic
• Excellent communication skills

Desired
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of cloud providers, especially AWS.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum
• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review code of others
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits
• Competitive salary
• Casual work environment
• Great work-life balance
• We value autonomy
• Opportunity for growth for all our employees

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8 120

 

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Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Aza Finance on apply.workable.com to apply


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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 21 June 2021
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 08-06-2021
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 08-06-2021
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 08-06-2065
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