Ajua is a Silicon Valley and Africa Venture Capital backed growth stage start-up, and Africa鈥檚 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 :聽
Maintain Ajua鈥檚 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聽 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