Back-End Engineer

Our client is in the business of offering trusted and transparent service on money transfers, allowing their customers to save money on their international transfers. They are seeking a talented and passionate Back-End Engineer to join their growing team. You will play a key role in crafting beautiful, intuitive and highly interactive dashboards for their payment processing platform. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled Java technologist with strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and back-end development experience. As an experienced Java Developer, you join a small, Agile team using core Java within a TDD environment deploying to AWS. The developer will help design and develop new features and enhancements across two remittance and wallet product areas, working across the full development lifecycle.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

1. Develop high-quality software solutions as part of a collaborative multi-disciplinary team
2. Be a full-stack developer that can work in each technical layer of modern software development to achieve the company’s business objectives.
3. Analyse production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
4. Estimate high-level business requirements and provide analysis.
5. Build solution architectures that align requirements, reference architectures design patterns, and technology standards to achieve solution agility and speed to implementation
6. Apply software engineering best practices, including DevSecOps and Test Driven Development (TDD)

Required Qualifications:

1. 5+ years of experience as a Back-End Engineer, with a proven track record of building data-driven dashboards.
2. Strong backend core Java development skills
3. In-depth expertise in Vue.js, Nuxt.js, and Typescript.
4. Experience with Tailwind CSS or similar utility-first frameworks.
5. Strong understanding of UI/UX design principles and accessibility best practices.
6. Thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, Data Structures, Algorithms, Design Patterns
7. Good knowledge of SQL and Networking (TCP/IP)
8. Experience with building responsive and performant web applications.
9. Solid knowledge of secure coding practices and industry compliance standards like PCI-DSS.
10. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear visualisations.
11. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
12. A passion for creating beautiful and user-friendly experiences.
13. Experience with building dashboards for the payment industry is an added advantage
14. Experience with API integrations and data fetching techniques is an added advantage
15. Knowledge of state management libraries like Pinia is an added advantage
16. Experience with unit testing and automated testing frameworks is an added advantage

How to Apply 

Candidates who meet the required specifications and are enthusiastic about the role are invited to submit their applications to Fanisi HR Solutions via jobs@fanisi.net  using “Back-End Developer” in the email subject line before Tuesday 27th May 2025. Screening is on a rolling basis. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.