Oct 25, Safaricom Tech Lead – API & Microservices Jobs in Kenya

Brief Description

Reporting to the Software Engineering Lead, the role holder will be responsible for driving digital transformation with end-to-end responsibility within IT to provide technical leadership in driving delivery of all backend services and architecture implementing evolutionary modern architectures for building superior customer products.

Key Responsibilities:

Driving digital transformation with end-to-end responsibility within IT to provide technical leadership in driving delivery of all backend services and architecture implementing evolutionary modern architectures for building superior customer products.

Owning, leading, and driving software engineering practices across all Safaricom backend software engineering delivery teams.

Providing expert knowledge of prototype creation, module and solution design and development using agile methodologies, and continuous testing to enable target business capabilities / user journeys.

Create, lead, manage, mentor and coach software engineers across the delivery organization, ensuring the quality software development and maintenance of highly skilled and motivated practice members.

Use of data insights to drive evolution of the backend software engineering and delivery of excellent customer.

Work closely with all organization security and risk groups and solution architects to

Make sure security is a high priority in digital applications development in digital channels and backend systems.

Design and deploy the implementation of the network and computer security in the organization supporting digital channels and backend systems.

Understand the company’s technology, and information systems application security policies and standards and drive implementation on the digital channels and backend systems.

Plan vulnerability testing, risk analysis, and security audits on the digital channels and backend systems.

Define set of rules, policies, standards, and models that govern quality backend engineering within Safaricom as a practice.

Qualifications

Strong knowledge of software architecture in backend systems.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field

7+ years of working experience in backend software engineering.

Proficiency in a modern coding language such as: Java and C#.

Must be have experience in developing and implementing algorithms.

Proficiency in managing backend infrastructure systems such as databases and caching platforms.

Familiarity with CI/CD solutions and DevSecOps principles

Communicates and conveys complex technical details to all audiences.

Proven development experience on AWS Cloud and Azure Cloud.

Effective communication skills.

Ability to learn quickly

Development experience in agile teams; strong product development and collaboration skills.

You can create compelling and articulate arguments to Senior Leadership when presenting or negotiating on projects.

Develop an enterprise wide technical strategy to effectively adopt technologies related to backend engineering

How to Apply

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