Career Opportunities at Flutterwave

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient border-less manner.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

 

Job Position: Backend Engineer (NodeJS)
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Ful Time

About the Role

  • We are looking for a driven, passionate, and committed individual to join the team as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond.
  • As our Backend Engineer (NodeJS), your primary responsibility will be to implement, maintain, and where applicable, support product features (and or enhancements)

What Your Day to Day Activities Will Be Like

  • Implementation, testing, delivery, and maintenance of product features (new and existing)
  • Creating technical reports on feature implementations
  • Research on existing/new product features and areas of improvement
  • Commitment to creating and maintaining secure coding practices (and standards)
  • Providing support for product features (when needed)
  • Perform any other duties that may be assigned

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

  • At least 2 years of working experience for a Full-time position and an internship position for candidates with less than a year of working experience
  • Good knowledge of Javascript for the backend (NodeJS) [Typescript is a plus]
  • Good, working, knowledge of a git
  • Good, working, knowledge of the SQL query language (MySQL flavor). [Knowledge and understanding of ORMs is a plus]
  • Good, working, knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially). [Knowledge and understanding of ODMs is a plus]
  • Good research skills
  • Good time commitment/management skills
  • Attention to details
  • Quick learner.

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply


Job Position: Senior Core Engineer (.Net, Java)
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Ful Time

About the Role

  • We are looking for a driven, passionate, and committed individual to join the team as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond.
  • As our Senior Core Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to Manage and seamlessly blend front-end and back-end web development.
  • Build new, improve and manage existing integrations and applications with external partners.

What Your Day to Day Activities Will Be Like

  • Produce application architecture design translated from high-level product/user requirements
  • Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product feature/enhancements in an agile environment
  • Develop customer-facing applications using RESTful APIs
  • Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements
  • Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
  • Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
  • Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles
  • Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as set up automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability
  • Work with front-end designers and converting designs to visual elements.
  • Maintain code and application security at all times. Ensure data protection.
  • Develop applications in back-end programming languages like Java, .NET, PHP as well as web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery
  • Guide and mentor new engineers and interns
  • Perform other duties assigned by team lead or engineering manager.

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

  • In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization’s strategy, product, and service offerings
  • In-depth understanding of both front-end and back-end languages, and SEO standards
  • Excellent Data structures and algorithms as well as creative skills to apply them in solving problems
  • Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies
  • Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies
  • Excellent organizational and people management skills
  • Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and quality assurance skills
  • Excellent time management and analytical skills
  • Excellent agile delivery knowledge including branching, testing, and continuous development. Collaborate with other engineers to deliver sprint goals
  • Excellent Devops knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply


Job Position: Android Developer
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Ful Time

About the Role

  • We are looking for driven, passionate and committed individuals to join the team as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond.
  • As the Android Developer, you will be responsible for developing applications for devices powered by the Android operating system as well as the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.

What Your Day to Day Activities Will Be Like
Design and development of professional business applications for the Android platform.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features in a dynamic work environment.
  • Work with external data sources/ APIs, unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
  • Work on fixing bugs and improving application responsiveness, quality and performance.
  • Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve development efficiency.
  • Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
  • Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code
  • Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

  • Senior Developer: Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
  • Junior Developer: Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience
  • Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
  • Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
  • Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
  • Ability to design applications around natural user interfaces, such as “touch”
  • Familiarity with the use of additional sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers
  • Knowledge of the open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
  • Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
  • Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications
  • A knack for benchmarking and optimization
  • Understanding of Google’s Android design principles and interface guidelines
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
  • Familiarity with continuous integration.

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply