Software Engineer at JUMO.WORLD

Job description

Globally, 2.5-billion people are underserved or excluded from the financial system; 80% of these people reside in Sub-Saharan Africa. JUMO believes technology provides the opportunity to connect everyone, everywhere with great choices and we are using the cloud to rebuild financial infrastructure. We use behavioural data to understand our customers and we create digital products that give them unprecedented empowerment and control over their own financial identity.

JUMO has more than five million customers with a further 150-million under integrated coverage in 2017 – our growth trajectory is steep therefore every person we hire is critically important for us to function as a high-performance scalable machine. A blueprint for our mission does not exist, thus we look for people who are growth-minded, curious and have a high tolerance for ambiguity and who can risk failure in striving for success.

As we expand into Asia and open more territories, partners, products and customers we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. This position will be based in Cape Town and will report directly to the Software Engineering Manager.

Join one of the fastest growing tech companies and help us solve a challenging set of problems in a space packed full of opportunities. At JUMO you will be working with some of the smartest people in the business who have come together from a diversity of backgrounds to rebuild financial infrastructure so that our customers win.

Job purpose:

Jumo needs a smart, dynamic execution focused Software Engineer who can help scale a service to meet the needs of rapidly growing, high volume service offering. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to build a high volume, highly reliable platform while demonstrating technical leadership for junior developers. She or he is able to operate in a high performing team, bring a strong sense of customer focus, has excellent communications skills and can deliver results in an aggressive and fast-paced environment .

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and support Jumo’s platform
• Diagnose and correct problems with production services
• Participate in Jumo’s agile project planning process
• Make Jumo a destination for world class engineering talent

Requirements:

Essential:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field or relevant experience
• Min 5 years experience designing, developing and testing software services
• Min 5 years experience with Ruby, Python, Scala or any OO language
• Experience with Linux or Mac OS

Desirable:

• Previous exposure in the financial industry. (not essential)
• Experience integrating real-time machine learning/AI/decision optimization in a big-data (HDFS+Map-Reduce) environment is desirable
• Experience working in Amazon Web Service environments (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk) is desirable

Skills and Knowledge

• Self starter
• Fast learner
• Excellent communications skills
• Sense of humor
• Ability to travel for meetings and training to countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and Ghana