AZA Finance Recruitment 2022

Job Title: Senior Ruby Engineer

How your skills and passion will come to life at AZA

• Mentor, train, and support engineers in order to develop our in-house engineering skills.
• Innovate, develop, maintain and contribute to the existing AZA codebase and its associated applications.
• Improve our overall system development process via process improvements.
• Optimize application performance and test coverage.
• Deliver presentations demonstrating application feature delivery.
• Work with our product team to refine product requirements.
• Feasibility and effort estimations.
• Provide support to our customers including triaging any issues.

Requirements

What we are looking for:

• Significant experience in a similar role Good knowledge of working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Preferably someone who has worked with Ruby and Ruby on Rails for a minimum of 5 years.
• Working knowledge of Javascript specifically React.
• Good knowledge of using automated testing frameworks such as RSpec and Cypress.
• Good knowledge of source control using Git.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum.
• Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on the cloud.
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of database systems, especially PostgreSQL.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.
• A strong and flexible work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desired

• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review the code of others.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• One of the hottest, fastest scaling startups in Africa.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work-life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard.
• …… and more!!