Engineering Lead Backend (Java core) at Centric Gateway

Centric Gateway develops payment enterprise gateways for banks, businesses and other marketplace companies to better facilitate payment transactions using APIs to connect inter and intra-Africa borders with different payment methods ranging from cards, wallets and bank accounts. We Build, Connect and Bridge the payment gap in Africa.

We thrive on partnerships to increase our reach and growth in coverage by making our payment gateway connect to partners for funds pay-out/pay-in via different online platforms in Nigeria and other African countries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Lead Backend (Java core)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities

Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
Main focus on coding and debugging
Collaborate with Front-end developers
Define and communicate technical and design requirements
Provide training, help and support to other team members
Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future
Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes
Troubleshoot and debug applications
Learn about new technologies.
Stay up to date with current best practices
Conduct UI tests and optimize performance
Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, developersand system administrators.
Participate in conferences and educational programs.
Follow new and emerging technologies.

Requirements and Qualifications

At least 4 years of experience as a Back-end developer
BA degree in Computer Science or similar relevant field
In-depth understanding of web development
2 years of experience with programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP and Python
3 years of experience with CMS framework
Familiarity with front-end languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS
Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
Team player
Good organizational and time-management skills
Great interpersonal and communication skills