Senior Software Engineer - SDE - III

Airtel Africa; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel Africa is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop robust back-end services. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring high standards of software quality, and contributing to innovative solutions in identity verification. The ideal candidate will have solid experience in Java and Kotlin, along with a proactive approach to technology adoption.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience in software development.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Spring, REST, SQL, Git, Maven/Gradle.
• Knowledge of Java 17 features and PCI experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly performant and scalable web services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features.
• Evaluate new technologies and maintain quality standards.

Skills

Java

Spring

REST

SQL

Git

Maven

Gradle

JPA

Design Patterns

TypeScript

Angular

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Kotlin

Distributed Systems

Docker

Microservices Architecture

Spring Cloud

Redis

Python

English Communication

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Computer Vision

Job description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop cool back-end software that will delight our customers and help expand the state of the art in this exciting domain! By developing highly performant, robust, and scalable web services and back-ends, you will have an impact on the latency and accuracy of the identity verification process. You will enable higher accuracy of both our algorithmic models and the manual identity verification process. We welcome you to challenge us to impact our software development processes and tools

Responsibilities:

• Be part of a cross-functional team to work on the continuous improvement of our systems with innovative technologies.
• Collaborate closely with the team to deliver features, working from requirements/analysis through the development process into the production environment.
• Work with Product Managers to clarify and prioritize work, with QA Engineers to maintain and improve quality, and with DevOps engineers to support operational and troubleshooting work.
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies and evaluate new tools.
• Define and use best practices with your team to produce new features in the most effective way while continuously improving the quality of the existing system.

Requirements:

• Have solid experience with Java, Spring (Core/Boot/Security/MVC/Data), REST (principles and hands-on experience with at least 1 framework), SQL, Git, Maven/Gradle, JPA, Design Patterns.
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript, Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Have at least 5 years of professional experience in software development.
• Experience in Kotlin (the services you will be responsible for are mainly written in Kotlin).
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Be able to work with PM/QA/DevOps as equal partners throughout the whole lifecycle of the feature/product.
• Be able to write good-quality and secure code, preferably be familiar with static code analysis tools.
• Have excellent analytical, conceptual, and communication skills in spoken and written English.
• Experience building distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems.
• Experience with any of the following: Docker, microservices architecture (hands-on), Spring Cloud, Redis, Python.
• Experience with the AWS suite of cloud development tools.
• Knowledge of Java 17 features.
• PCI experience.
• Experience with Machine learning/Deep learning/Computer Vision algorithms, either developing or using them.