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Junior Software Engineer
JUMO
Posted 2 months agoKenya; Portugal; South Africa
Location
Kenya; Portugal; South Africa
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Entry-Level
Category
Engineering
Job Description
About this job
Teamwork plays an integral role in the success of our tech strategy. In JUMO, our teams have exposure to a broad range of the best new technology, and are trusted with the autonomy and flexibility to explore, innovate and find creative solutions to interesting challenges. With this, everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our mission of enabling equal access to finance opportunities. We have chosen our tech stack carefully and believe in using the best tools out there.
Our software engineering team is responsible for building our market-leading banking as a service platform & products, enabling real-time access to funds at the lowest possible operating cost. When integrated into JUMO’s platform, it enables our partners to offer loans, savings and a wide range of financial choices to a new group of customers.
As a Junior Software Engineer, you will be accountable for solving complex technical problems with solutions that are scalable, testable, maintainable, and efficient, whilst continuing to improve our engineering practices. This position reports to a Tech Lead.
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Responsibilities
- You will:
- You will deliver across the SDLC to build a highly scalable distributed system
- Assist in defining the team's roadmap in line with the company and technology vision.
- Architect services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and support our products and services.
- Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback.
- Guide the team to consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors.
- Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays and cost ballooning within their team’s projects, before they require escalation.
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and drive best practices and engineering excellence.
- You will need:
- 1 - 2 years’ of experience with Kotlin / Java / Scala, and a cloud-based infrastructure, ideally AWS. Python experience will be an added advantage.
- Experience designing, developing and testing software.
- Some experience with the design and development of high-volume/low-latency services.
- Business and operational awareness.
- Good communication skills & EQ – able to work in a diverse team.
- You will love:
- Work in an agile cross-functional team, delivering quality code you can be proud of.
- Work with a modern but pragmatic Tech Stack (i.e. Kotlin + Spring Boot for Backend, TypeScript + React for Web and Mobile, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Datadog, GitHub Actions + ArgoCD for CI/CD, AWS), building a highly scalable distributed system
- Ensure consistency and accuracy when required.
- Led and supported by an experienced, hands-on Tech Lead.
- Collaborating with smart, engaging people.
- Working for impact.
- Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support.
- Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges.
- Flexible work practices enabling your best delivery.
- Being autonomous and empowered to lead.
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