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