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.

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

Basic Requirements

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science or related engineering discipline

3+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience

Solid data structures and algorithms foundation

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

Advanced understanding of Spring Framework, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Have an understanding of applicable unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks

Have an understanding of Relational and Non-relational databases

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

Experience architecting, developing and deploying distributed systems

Working  knowledge of Linux and networking

Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies preferably Docker and Kubernetes

Working knowledge of AWS Cloud computing platform

Open Source project contributions are a plus

Working Conditions:

Building impactful products at Ajua that shape businesses and consumers in Africa and the world at large

Great and fun work environment; you get an opportunity to work with brilliant minds at Ajua

Competitive salary.

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.