Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects.

Summary

Reporting to the Development Lead Fintech – Financial Services IT, the role holder responsibilities will include financial services system development, support, capacity planning and technology evolution to attain a service availability of 99.999%.

Key Responsibilities

• Software development for new financial solutions as per the approved solutions designs.
• Participate in design for new solutions.
• Software testing to meet both functional and non-functional requirements (monitoring, performance testing etc.)
• Document and maintain software functionality and document released software.
• Troubleshooting, debugging, upgrading and optimization of existing systems.
• Recommend and execute improvements to existing systems.
• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with Software development standards.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Release and change management
• Contributing towards innovative initiatives.
• Undertake necessary measures to increase the quality of delivery and ensure zero major defects.
• Development of microservices using java and spring framework.
• Use CI/CD to automate deployments.
• Deliver projects on time as agreed upon by the various stakeholders.
• Making use of agile and scrum frameworks in project delivery while making use of tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
• Development of automated tests for functional, performance, and security testing using test-driven development.
• Evaluation of new and existing financial systems infrastructure.
• Planning & design for new financial solutions.
• Platform capacity planning
• Financial solutions technology evolution to attain 99.999% service availability.
• Implementation and integration of new hardware/software.
• Optimization of existing systems.
• Internal Process Improvement in accordance with ITIL and Agile standards.

Qualifications 

• Degree in one of the following: Computer Science, Telecommunications; Electronic Engineering; IT (Computing) – Operating systems, databases, system development
• 2 years of work experience as an engineer in Financial Technology or a telecommunications environment.
• Knowledge and experience on coding languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript) and frameworks/systems (e.g., Spring framework, AngularJS, React, Git, Apache camel, Node Js and GraphQL.)
• Experience and Strong understanding of both JSON and SOAP
• Experience in securing APIs using Oauth2, SAML etc.
• Knowledge in Agile methodology. Certification in Scrum fundamentals is an added advantage.
• Knowledge in DevSecOps, CI/CD and version control (Git)
• Good understanding of writing unit tests.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases i.e., Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra
• Experience in mobile money systems.
• Knowledge in cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Huawei or GCP).
• Knowledge in container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, openshift container platform etc.)
• Proven Analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Good presentation skills required.
• Good public relations, communication & interpersonal.