Senior Platform Engineer
Ajua is The Integrated Customer Experience Solution for Businesses in Africa.We exist to bridge the gap between businesses and their customers. Ajua’s technology integrates with businesses at the points that matter most to their customers to measure and optimize their Customer Experience. Our plug and play platform has enabled leading brands of various sizes and industries on the continent to create actionable strategies that drive business growth. Ajua is a Silicon Valley and Africa Venture Capital backed growth stage start-up, and Africa’s first Integrated Customer Experience (#IntegratedCX) company driving business growth and giving consumers options on the continent.Are you ready to lead in the building of technologies to solve the continent's most pressing challenges? Then this opportunity is for you! We are looking for a talented Sr. Platform Engineer who shares our passion for building software solutions and the next technologies across the continent.Reporting to the Head of Engineering, the Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for building outstanding software solutions to support our real time data platform.The candidate should demonstrate the following skills : Maintain Ajua’s platform uptime, performance, stability and scalabilityDesign, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with othersDevelop, maintain, and scale a world class public APIDevelop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requestsExperience working with data processing technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)Experience working with Data Scientists to develop rich value added featuresExperience working with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse systemExperience working with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliabilityExperience working with Machine Learning and using large-scale data repository for business intelligence; App development a plus.Closely monitor all platform related production systemsPeriodically perform On-Call dutyAnalyze requirements thoroughly; Advise and develop solutions that solves the true customers' painPerform testing and unit testing for delivering quality workAcquire technical skills and knowledge continuously and aggressively, and help team to develop the sameProperly document development work completedProviding strategic guidance and advice in a true partnership with executive leadership Basic RequirementsBachelors of Science in Computer Science or related engineering discipline8+ years of relevant, broad engineering experienceSolid data structures and algorithms foundationExpert-level understanding of at least one JVM language preferably Java Advanced understanding of the JVM internals, JVM Runtime, JVM GC, and JVM performance tuningAdvanced understanding of Spring Framework, Spring Boot and Spring CloudDeep understanding of applicable unit and integration testing, and testing frameworksDeep understanding of Relational and Non-relational data...