Senior Software Engineer at Asante Financial Services Group

Asante Financial Services Group is a high-impact digital financial services firm focused on advancing financial independence and improving the well-being of Underserved small businesses and individuals in Africa.

Main Responsibilities

• Handle the design, architecture, development, code review, and testing of key applications in the following areas: Client facing applications, proof of concept prototypes, Pronto mobile app


• Work closely with the product management and design teams to define feature requirements and deliver the product that materially impacts the business and improves the customer experience


• In liaison with the other Engineers, Design and implement scalable web service APIs.


• Spearhead Quarterly Code Reviews


• Contribute and spearhead Asante’s strategy direction around enhancement of existing tech stacks and emerging one


• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth


• Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility


• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design


• Work closely with Asante Finance strategic partners to model integration options to Asante mobile solutions


• Experience in distributed code repositories such as Gitlab


• Work on and provide improvement inputs to Asante’s API Middleware


• Help maintain code quality, organization and modularity by following sound development practices


• In liaison with the strategic IT vendors, deliver across the entire app life cycle –concept, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support


• Work directly with key stakeholders eg. Asante Product Managers to conceptualize, build, test and realize products


• Gather requirements around functionality and translate those requirements into elegant functional solutions


• Build prototypes at tech scoping stage of projects


• Working along the Engineering team to create and maintain a robust framework to support the apps, post deployment


• Work closely with Asante Back End Engineers to design and build of back end components; APIs, databases etc


• Create compelling device specific user interfaces and experiences


• Standardizing the platform and in some cases apps to deliver across multiple brands with minimal duplication of effort

Essential skills:

• Experience working and leading a team a minimum of 3 developers


• More than 8-10 yrs years’ experience in software development (backend and frontend) within the Finance industry


• Strong OO design and programming skills in 2 of the following back-end languages or frameworks; Java spring boot and/or PHP Laravel


• Knowledge of Javascript frameworks for front end development


• Strong experience in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL


• Knowledge of software design principles and fundamentals of architecture


• Experience building API driven interfaces


• Experience with Agile development methodologies


• Experience working with version control tools.


• Mobile Platforms exposure (Hybrid & Native) will be an added advantage

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