Software Engineer – Fintech Integration Full Time

At Safaricom Ethiopia, we are a purpose-led technology company dedicated to transforming lives through digital connectivity and inclusive financial services. In under four years, we have grown to serve over 10 million customers, with our network now reaching 55% of Ethiopia’s population – a testament to our bold vision and trusted partnerships.

Guided by core values such as customer obsession, innovation, integrity, and get it done together, we are building a workplace that is dynamic, inclusive, and empowering. We believe our greatest strength lies in our people. That’s why, for two consecutive years, we have proudly get earned the Top Employer Award – in recognition for our unwavering commitment to fostering a supportive, innovative, and inclusive environment to people.

Join Safaricom Ethiopia and be part of a team that is shaping the digital future of Ethiopia. Here, your work has meaning, your voice matters, and your growth is our priority. Together, we are transforming lives for a digital future.

Role purpose: 

We are looking for a highly skilled integration Engineer with experience in both back-end development and system integration. You will work in an agile environment to deliver cutting-edge applications using DevOps practices and tools. 

If you’re interested in working in the field of system Integration and moving forward in your career, then this job is for you. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new technologies and aspires to solve problem. You will be reporting to the Senior Integration Engineer within M-Pesa Technology function.

Ultimately, you should be able to create a secure, functional and efficient Api’s and middleware’s for our company, ensuring great user experience.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Develop digital products – as part of your role, you will be required to develop products that are mobile, api and microservice driven.
•  Devops – you will be required to develop and support various products. Knowledge of devops tooling is a must: git, docker container, Jenkins, Kubernetes
•  Create new ideas and demonstrate them in code – Code quality, understanding of the product and be able to create new services that conform to a standardized development framework.
• Work with product managers and external parties in a team – Work with cross functional teams to ensure successful delivery of a product which includes other developers and product owners.
•  Ensure delivery timelines – Ensuring all projects are delivered on timelines that have been agreed upon.
•  Making use of agile and scrum frameworks in project delivery- making use of tools like Jira, Confluence etc.
•  Developing microservices using sprint, sprint security, Kubernetes and dockers
•  Always be hands on delivering the highest quality and fixing of issues both on development and production.
•  Innovative, open-minded for working with new technologies.

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

Business Competencies:

• Must be able to work without supervision & meet tight deadlines/schedules.
• A strong desire to learn and figure out how to create state-of-the-art API using the latest technology.

Creativity and Innovation

• Excellent Problem-solving skills

Business Know how

• Experience of working in Fintech organization
• System thinking ability

Working with Change

• Excellent communication skills
• Quick to adopt and willingness to work/deliver in a short period

Project and Program Management

• Knowledge of Scrum/Kanban Agile methodologies

Functional Competencies:

• Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject.
• Experience in Continuous integration and deployment methodologies using automated tools such as Jenkins.
• Basic understanding of cloud computing is a plus
• An understanding of security principles regarding web and mobile applications and tech platforms

Key performance indicator:

1. Delivery of all assigned tasks as per defined quality and committed timelines.
2. Skillset modernization – continuously upskill according to M-Pesa Technology yearly skillset modernization program.

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

•  At least 1 years’ experience in coding in a non-university setting.

•  Experience in Java, spring boot, spring, spring MVC, JEE, MAVEN, spring cloud. Should be conversant in Java. Other programming languages such as C#, Golang will be an added advantage.

• Proven experience with integration technologies such as APIs, web services, and message queues.

• Strong understanding of microservice architecture – Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms. This will include when and where to use a particular architecture and pattern.

• Working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL..).

•  Experience in analytical and problem-solving skills, developing solutions using agile, DevOps, testing and CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, SonarQube, GitOps etc will be an added advantage.

•  Build microservices leveraging on cloud Services, Serverless architecture, designing and implementing with full stack solutions leveraging Node or Spring stack.

• Be able to build cloud native and cloud ready solutions using java.

• Strong understanding of Docker-based containers, Kubernetes, or other container schedulers.

•  Understanding of both soap and rest apis and development on swagger UI

•  Strong understanding of cloud technologies – AWS, Azure, GCP

•  Experience with automated testing tools – SonarQube, JUnit

Desired 

• A very good understanding about Java, Spring boot, spring, SOAP, XML, RESTful api and our mainstream IDEs such IntelliJ and VSCode
• Certification in cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes

 How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to create/ update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.