Software Engineer at JUMO.WORLD

Job description

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