Recent 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 below:

Job Title: Technical Recruiter

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos (Currently partly remote and partly physical)
Reporting Line: Group Head, Human Resources

Job Purpose

• The responsibilities of this role include sourcing, screening and providing a shortlist of qualified candidates for various technical roles. Incumbent will also network online and offline with potential candidates to promote our employer brand, reduce our time-to-hire and ensure we attract the best tech talents. Ultimately, he/she will build a strong tech talent pipeline and help hire and retain skilled employees for our Technical positions.

Responsibilities

• Develop recruitment strategies for the acquisition and retention of tech talents
• Attract the attention of high-quality candidates
• Adopt social recruiting strategies to relate with and attract top talents and build a pool of qualified candidates that can be accessed at all times as vacancies arise
• Manage the technical recruitment process end to end
• Adopt objective and equitable recruitment processes to ensure vacancies are filled quickly
• Recruit potential applicants based on experience, skills and education
• Develop a thorough and robust onboarding process that is unique to the technology industry and aligns with the company vision
• Work closely with the technology department, increasingly in a consultancy role and assist line managers to understand talent needs
• Develop technology job profiles and update job requirements on a regular basis
• Conduct survey on pay and other remuneration packages adopted in the technology industry and advise the management accordingly
• Display high sense of ownership of the recruitment process from sourcing to interviews through hiring and ensure the highest level of candidate experience.
• Acts as a support HR generalist and support strategic HR initiatives

The Ideal Person
The Ideal Person for this role must have:

• Minimum of 5 years experience as a Recruiter.
• Proven work experience as a Technical Recruiter or Recruiter.
• Experience in a recruitment consulting role is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with various interview formats (e.g. Virtual or structured Interviews).
• Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for Tech roles.
• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases.
• Solid knowledge of contemporary hiring techniques (e.g. social recruiting etc).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of HR practices and labor legislation.

Application Deadline 23rd April, 2021.

Job Title: Senior Laravel Developer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly 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: Senior Java Engineer

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

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code. The incumbent will deliver high quality code that complies with design specifications, meets security and Java / JEE best practices and contribute to all phases of software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Create the formal design documentation as required
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Translate requirements and use cases into functional applications
• Develop code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java/JEE best practices.
• Design, develop and maintain back-end services with a focus on high availability, low latency and scalability.
• Conduct code reviews, as requested, to comply with coding standards
• Produce and maintain high-quality technical process documentation.

The Ideal Person
The Ideal candidate must have:

• Minimum 5 years' of professional Java development experience
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies
• Experience working with Hibernate, Oracle, and MySQL, PostgreSQL databases
• Experience with creating, managing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience working with Spring Framework
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience with, or understanding of CI/CD, AWS infrastructure services, Docker.
• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle
• Experience with Automated quality assurance testing, jMeter, unit, and functional testing
• Experience developing, profiling, and troubleshooting Java application code and automated testing tools
• Knowledge and experience in EFK, Kakfa, AWS Cloud environments, docker containers
• Experience in containerization of Springboot microservices
• Financial Services or banking industry experience preferred

Job Title: Technical Project Manager

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

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to manage the technical projects, incumbent will partner lwith eadership, production and technical teams to develop product roadmaps and ensure successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Create user stories & acceptance criteria
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Partner with leadership, production and technical teams to develop product roadmaps.
• Backlog management, iteration, planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Participate in the technical design, and the development of functional specifications
• Lead the development team
• Ensure clean and well-documented code
• Manage the project to ensure successful delivery
• Track and report project progress
• Manage communication with all stakeholders
• Remove blockers, manage risks to help team deliver on the company's goals and objectives

The Ideal Person
The Ideal candidate must have;

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Leadership experience and strong teaming abilities
• Minimum 2 Years of experience in IT project management or a related field.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Solid understanding of software development life-cycle best practices
• An ability to drive to big picture goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
• Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, fluent in English
• A problem-solving, analytical mindset and strong decision-making capabilities
• Ability to communicate effectively with teams and clients
• Effectively lead teams and inspire others to achieve goals through innovation, quality and excellence
• Experience in troubleshooting, software development processes and ability to understand and implement client requirements.
• Possesses good knowledge of different software systems, client/server architectures and various compatibility requirements.
• Solid knowledge of technical development concepts, latest software tools and technologies, strong database concepts and designing techniques.

Application Deadline 30th April, 2021.

How to Apply
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