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Back end developer

Full Time
Nairobi
Posted Apr 23, 2025
Hybrid
$1,000 - $2,000 per month

About Fanisi HR Solutions Ltd

Our client is in the business of offering trusted and transparent service on money transfers, allowing their customers to save money on their international transfers.

Job Summary

You will be key in crafting beautiful, intuitive and highly interactive dashboards for their payment processing platform. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled Java technologist with strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and back-end development experience. As an experienced Java Developer, you join a small, Agile team using core Java within a TDD environment deploying to AWS. The developer will help design and develop new features and enhancements across two remittance and wallet product areas, working across the full development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Develop high-quality software solutions as part of a collaborative multi-disciplinary team.
  2.  Be a full-stack developer who can work in each technical layer of modern software development to achieve the company’s business objectives.
  3.  Analyse production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
  4. Estimate high-level business requirements and provide analysis.
  5. Build solution architectures that align requirements, reference architectures design patterns, and technology standards to achieve solution agility and speed to implementation.
  6. Apply software engineering best practices, including DevSecOps and Test Driven Development (TDD)

Required Qualifications

  1. 5+ years of experience as a Back-End Engineer, with a proven track record of building data-driven dashboards.
  2. Experience with building responsive and performant web applications.
  3.  Solid knowledge of secure coding practices and industry compliance standards like PCI-DSS.
  4. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear visualisations.
  5. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
  6. A passion for creating beautiful and user-friendly experiences.
  7. Experience with building dashboards for the payment industry is an added advantage
  8. Experience with API integrations and data fetching techniques is an added advantage
  9. Knowledge of state management libraries like Pinia is an added advantage
  10. Experience with unit testing and automated testing frameworks is an added advantage
     

Key Skills

  1.  Strong backend core Java development skills
  2. In-depth expertise in Vue.js, Nuxt.js, and Typescript.
  3. Experience with Tailwind CSS or similar utility-first frameworks.
  4. Strong understanding of UI/UX design principles and accessibility best practices.
  5. Thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, Data Structures, Algorithms, Design Patterns
  6. Good knowledge of SQL and Networking (TCP/IP)

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