Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Software Architect
Company: Paga
Location: Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities
- Vision & Strategic Leadership: Help develop and grow the technical vision for the Paga business and engage meaningfully in the strategic development of the overall business. Engage directly in business strategic leadership when it relates to product and technical decision making.
- Broad-scoped Technical Ownership: Independently oversees all software concerns for some of the major platform areas or services. Own end-to-end responsibility for a large portion of the software system including design and implementation and including a strong knowledge of complementary engineering aspects such as data management, dev-ops and infrastructure. Own responsibility for key delivery criteria such as performance, reliability, cost, security and maintainability for large portions of the system.
- Technical Leadership: Oversees key architectural concerns such as security, scalability/performance, reliability, maintainability, and modularity. Applies a platform-wide perspective to decision making around these concerns, including infrastructural, deployment, delivery and other technically relevant concerns.
- Process Leadership: Drive development and improvement of technical product development processes in collaborations with product development management.
- Code Quality Review: Provide broad-scoped yet in-depth code review for technically complex and high-impact code changes.
- Partner Engagement: Working effectively with industry/ecosystem partners to accomplish product goals.
Requirements
- A degree in a related discipline
- 10+ years of continuous experience working on enterprise software application development OR an advanced degree in a related discipline and at least 8 years of continuous experience working on enterprise software application development
Knowledge and Skills:
- Java/J2EE and Spring and other Java frameworks
- Kafka and other stream-processing platform
- Micro-service architecture concepts
- Vue.js and React front-end frameworks
- Relational DB architecture and administration (MSSQL Server, PostgreSQL)
- Kubernetes & Docker containerization frameworks
- OLTP / Financial transaction processing concerns
- Cloud deployment architecture and concerns (Azure, AWS)
We Offer
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative fintech company
- Be part of a mission to enable one billion Africans and millions of SMEs to pay, preserve hard-earned income, participate in global trade, and purchase goods and services at home and abroad.
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About the Company
Paga is on a mission to enable one billion Africans and millions of SMEs to pay, preserve hard-earned income, participate in global trade, and purchase goods and services at home and abroad. We have built a multicurrency, cloud-based payments and financial services engine that leverages multiple business services built on the same best-in-class infrastructure to serve the ecosystem through three businesses - Paga Engine (Enterprise B2B - www.pagaengine.com); Paga (Consumer - www.Paga.com); and Doroki (SME Retail -www.doroki.com). Paga has three licenses with the Central Bank of Nigeria – mobile money, international remittance, and a microfinance bank. Paga is headquartered out of the United Kingdom and has operating entities in Nigeria, United States, and Ethiopia. Founded in 2009, Paga now serves millions of users and businesses across Africa and beyond.
Our purpose at Paga is to make it simple for 1 billion people to access and use money. We do that by delivering innovative financial services to the mass market across large, underserved markets.
At Paga we value above all else, Collaboration, Ownership, Results Orientation, Integrity and Innovation (CORII).
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity inclusion. We do not discriminate on grounds of colour, race, nationality, religion, age, ethnic origin, disability, gender, marital status, or sexual orientation in our employment practices.