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 scalability

Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others

Develop, maintain, and scale a world class public API

Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests

Experience working with  data processing technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)

Experience working with Data Scientists to develop rich value added features

Experience working with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system

Experience working with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability

Experience working with Machine Learning and using large-scale data repository for business intelligence; App development a plus.

Closely monitor all platform related production systems

Periodically perform On-Call duty

Analyze requirements thoroughly; Advise and develop solutions that solves the true customers' pain

Perform testing and unit testing for delivering quality work

Acquire technical skills and knowledge continuously and aggressively, and help team to develop the same

Properly document development work completed

Providing strategic guidance and advice in a true partnership with executive leadership

Basic Requirements

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science or related engineering discipline

8+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience

Solid data structures and algorithms foundation

Expert-level understanding of at least one JVM language preferably Java

Advanced understanding of the JVM internals, JVM Runtime, JVM GC, and JVM performance tuning

Advanced understanding of Spring Framework, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Deep understanding of applicable unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks

Deep understanding of Relational and Non-relational databases

Strong understanding of big data stack, e.g. Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc

Experience architecting, developing and deploying distributed systems

Excellent knowledge of Linux and networking

Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies preferably Docker and Kubernetes

Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud computing platform

Open Source project contributions are a plus

Working Conditions:

Potential travel between East

Growth stage startup grind! Working in a dynamic startup environment

Competitive salary and benefits

Ajua  is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.