Current Job Vacancies at TechAdvance Limited

TechAdvance is a payment application development company with a strategic focus in developing and deploying niche payment companies to serve the needs of large public and private sector organisations in Emerging markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Chief Product Officer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partially Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Innovations Officer

Job Purpose

• This role is responsible for translating the product strategy into action and owning the product roadmap.
• In addition to that, the incumbent is instrumental in executing on business case development, competitive analysis, product-market fit, product differentiation, and serve as representative of the product, the market, and the company's success.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for product strategy and product roadmap.
• Translate the product strategy vision into action by executing on business case development, competitive analysis, product-market fit, product differentiation, and serve as the voice of the customer.
• Develop the end-to-end portfolio product vision and roadmap for innovations, ensuring initiatives run smoothly across internal teams, customers, and stakeholders.
• Deliver results to the business quantified using terms such as P&L, usage and user growth, churn rates, product performance increase in client satisfaction, etc.
• Create product communication channels between Technology, Sales, Marketing, etc.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to strengthen the Go to Market, Retention, and Technology strategies.
• Provide unbiased opinions that identify missing key segments, new trends, emerging competitors, and portfolio level interdependencies.
• Work directly with end customers, business partners, marketing, and sales teams to determine the best functionality and relative priorities
• Manage the inputs for the agile development process to assure development is set up for success in meeting delivery schedules.
• Provide input and support to product marketing as needed
• Communicate priorities and status with executives and business partner leadership
• Coach, inspire, and mentor product management leadership and team.

The Ideal Person
The Ideal Candidate must have:

• A Bachelor’s Degree or Preferably an MBA
• Board Level Communications Skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, motivate, and inspire teams with clarity
• Ability to quickly adopt change & influence project team through action
• Ability to prioritize distinct tasks in an environment with multiple competing priorities
• Able to deliver multiple portfolio strategies from concept to cash
• Experience with Pricing model creation and execution
• Ability to manage a team of product managers 
• Ability to take business use cases and create digital financial services products and infrastructure out of them
• Deep knowledge of core banking applications, reconciliation systems, digital banks, enterprise payment and transactions products, card schemes and products.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse business needs and create solutions for development teams to implement.

Job Title: Senior Laravel Developer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partially Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

About the Role

• The incumbent will be responsible for developing, recording and maintaintng cutting edge web-based applications on portal plus premium service platforms,
• He or she will build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the the entire dev team.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Building and maintain high-performance APIs and backend systems
• Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
• Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
• Optimize existing code with special attention to performance and maintainability.
• Lead writing and maintaining the documentation of code and architecture.
• Review other engineer’s code and guide architecture decisions.
• Contribute creatively to the future product roadmap.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.

The Ideal Person
The Ideal Candidate must have:

• Proficient knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL/MS SQL/PostgreSQL), database designing and query optimisation techniques
• Proficient understanding of RESTful API development and 3rd party integrations
• Good core knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap framework.
• Competency in Version Control with Git,Bitbucket or GitHub
• Solid understanding of the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries..
• Be Creative, solution-driven and a customer-focused mindset.
• Experience in micro-services development is a plus
• Experince in developing a Payments or Fintech product(s).

Job Title: Javascript Backend Developer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partially Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• The incumbent will design, build and maintain scalable software systems, develop back-end components and APIs that connect applications with other web services.
• He/She will also support the tech team to to bring product visions to life.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Writing well-tested backend infrastructure code.
• Building and maintaining public APIs.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.
• Work closely with the CTO to design and develop distributed, resilient and high-performing backend services using Node.js
• Code according to industry and team standards, adhering to good practices
• Write maintainable, readable code with extensive test coverage, ideally applying TDD
• Actively engage with team members to discuss backlog items, design issues and best coding practices
• Create technical documentation for internal and external use

The Ideal Person
The Ideal Candidate must have:

• At least 3 years of experience building production applications with Javascript (and Typescript), Express, Node.js, MongoDB.
• Understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs.
• Good knowledge of HTTP and RESTful API design and architecture
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with, or understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Message Queue technology such as RabbitMQ or Redis, AWS infrastructure services, Docker.
• A strong understanding of backend performance, scalability and security.
• Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline 31st March, 2021.