Head of Technical Team - PalmPay

PalmPay is a pan-African fintech company currently operating in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya and expanding to other markets in 2023. We’re reinventing the payment experience by making it easy and reliable for everyone to transfer money, pay bills, and shop online.

At Palmpay, you will be part of a purpose-driven community dedicated to creating a bold and versatile work environment. In Palmpay, you will be an integral member of a growing organization that inspires passion, courage, and inventiveness, creating the future of global commerce and making an important, positive impact on millions of Palmpay customers and agents. If you are looking for a special place to take your Payments career to the next level, we want to talk with you!

Risk management is at the core of payments done well, and we are hiring curious, driven, and courageous experts to transform our business for Palmpay's next-generation payments strategy and beyond.

Who we are looking for:

We are looking for a skilled and experienced professional to lead the technical team, responsible for designing and investigating channel integration. As a self-motivated and enthusiastic member of our team, you will work with extremely hardworking colleagues in a fun environment. You will work in an agile environment with a focus on problem-solving and engineering perfection.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work through all phases of the channel integration process independently as well as jointly with other team members.
• Collaborate with architects, product management, developers, QE, and operations teams to work on innovative solutions in alignment with development goals and principles.
• Produce clear, well-documented debug report documents and participate in issue fixing, and service stability improvement with developers, analysts, and product managers. Good understanding of business problems.
• Responsible for leading engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities for an always-on, 24x7 site.

Job Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, a master’s or equivalent professional certification is highly desired.
• 8+ years of software design and IT support experience, a solid foundation in computer science.
• 5+ years of experience in software development using Java, SOAP, RESTful Web Services, and Micro Services. Experience with shell scripting and networking is a major plus.
• Strong experience in fintech, banking, telecommunications, or a related field is preferred.
• Ability to adapt to changing business priorities and to thrive under pressure.
• Excellent decision-making, communication, and collaboration skills