Job Summary

Full Stack Developer will support the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer in the building of a full technology stack to produce scalable software solutions. The Full Stack Developer will be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries, experience in building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages. The full stack developer will join a small team that uses new technology to solve challenges for both the front-end and back-end architecture, ultimately delivering amazing experiences for Solv Ghana platform users.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Support the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer in driving the technical vision, strategy, direction of SOLV Ghana.

Business

• Work with the Technology Lead/ Chief Technology Officer, and partners on the technology build, vendor engineering engagements, etc to help deliver features and capabilities aligned to the business model of SOLV Ghana.

Processes

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

People & Talent

• Support the development of an appropriate culture that upholds the values of SOLV Ghana. Promote and embed a culture of openness, trust and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.

Risk Management

• Collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders to anticipate horizon risks that may have a significant impact on the Ventures Technology and help develop effective strategies to mitigate such risks.

Governance

• Attend relevant meetings and provide relevant reports to Senior Management and Governance/ Risk committees for the area of responsibility.
• Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Support the achievement within SOLV Ghana, the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.

Key Stakeholders

• Global Technology Team
• Other Tech Heads
• 3rd party Vendors

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline or equivalent
• Ideally 2 – 8 years of hands-on Experience in Java/J2ee, Spring Boot, OOAD, Mysql/ PostgreSQL, redis/Hazelcast cache, Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Knowledge of Collections, Threads, Exception handling, Log4j, JDBC, J2EE, SQL
• Knowledge of application development using Spring, Hibernate.
• Knowledge of Design Patterns, REST, SOAP, Junit and Develop Self-contained Restful services
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Microservices architectures and object-oriented analysis and design
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in developing, documenting and deploying MicroServices solution on cloud infra.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience using technologies Spring / MongoDB / Redis / MySQL / PostgreSQL
• Demonstrated Cluster Management knowledge and experience using platforms including – Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with System integrations using messaging including or like Kafka / RabbitMQ
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Web servers (Tomcat/Jboss/Wildfly/Weblogic) and load balancing technologies.
• Good communication Skill, flexible and good attitude.
• Experience of working in Agile methodology.
• BE/BTECH/MCA Degree holder
• Any work related repositories Eg : Github

About SC Ventures

SC Ventures (“SCV”) was established in 2018 with the purpose of “Rewiring the DNA in Banking” by bringing three distinct areas together:

• The eXellerator Lab, enabling innovation at large in the Bank by supporting intrapreneurs and their ideas, collaborating with fintech’s through the SCV Fintech Bridge and engaging with clients and co-creation ideas
• The Investment Fund (“Fund”), tasked to acquire minority stakes in fintech companies (“fintechs”) whose technology has been successfully validated in the Group
• Venture building, with the objective of exploring new business models (“ventures”), in the way it engages existing new customers and markets.