Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise the possibilities on our continent and beyond. 

We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.  

Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications &amp; build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions &amp; leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Accountability: DevOps • Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions • Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process • Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions • Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven &amp; domain driven / cross domain environment • Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions • Ensure designs &amp; solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability &amp; resilience • Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions • Create &amp; Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring &amp; supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production) • Use &amp; configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc. • Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes • Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. • Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services • Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.) • Apply version control and related concepts and techniques • Align all application development &amp; development process to Group Architecture, Security &amp; Infrastructure guidelines • Work with project &amp; program teams (when required) to plan &amp; manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. • Conduct reviews, performance monitoring &amp; ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications • Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc. • Contribute to the design &amp; evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure &amp; associated technical standards for the organization

People • Coach &amp; mentor other engineers • Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team • Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization • Participate as a subject matter expert in the development &amp; development planning of the broader product engineering team • Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee &amp; 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk &amp; Governance • Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during &amp; post deployment) • Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks • Create business cases &amp; solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals) • Participate in incident management &amp; DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving &amp; technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents • Deliver on time &amp; on budget (always) Education and experience required • 8+ years’ experience

• Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS &amp; Google Cloud Platform essential

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience &amp; practical application in the following is evident: • Cross domain knowledge • Architecture • Infrastructure Solutioning • Testing • Web Applications • Service Side • Influencing • Automation • Messaging • Virtualisation &amp; Cloud • Solutioning • SSL Security • CI/CD etc. • Experience as an agile practitioner and knowledge or experience of other delivery methodologies e.g. Kanban, RUP etc. • Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments • Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScript • Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms • Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design • Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST • Experience with open-source relational databases • Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc. • Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS • Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus), • Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines • Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git • Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s) • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills. • Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly • Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python • Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos • Familiar with Containerisation technologies like Docker &amp; or orchestrators like Kubernetes

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies) • Making Decisions • Empowering Individuals • Directing People • Embracing Change • Challenging Ideas • Team Working • Developing Expertise • Meeting Timescales

Lead Product Engineer - Cloud

We are the 2 in:
Business-2-Consumer 
Business-2-Business 
& Business-2-Government Solutions  

Design, Communication, & Technology.



Qualifications Have two or more iOS/Android apps developed with Flutter. Either deployed on the AppStore/Google Play or available on Github; 5+ years in mobile software development; Experience with third-party libraries and APIs; Understanding of the Agile development life-cycle; Experience with automated testing and building; Experience with Git, Jenkins, or other version control tools; Ability to write readable code, create extensive documentation for existing code, and refactor the previously written code into readable state. Good English communication skills.

Flutter Developer

JUMO is a full technology platform, developed for building and running financial services. JUMO partners with forward thinking banks and mobile network operators to connect consumers and small businesses with financial opportunity. JUMO combines data and technology to deliver products designed to reach and fit the 80% of the world’s population that are un(der)served by traditional financial services.

JUMO’s extensive network of partners includes financial services providers such as the Barclays Africa Group, Letshego Bank, and Telenor Microfinance Bank, as well as mobile network operators such as MTN, Airtel, Telenor, and Tigo. In 2018, JUMO also partnered with Uber to create JUMO Drive, a digital vehicle asset financing product for Uber driver-partners. Currently, JUMO employs over 350 people in 10 countries across Africa and Asia, with hubs in Singapore, London, and Palo Alto. Approximately two-thirds of JUMO’s employees are specialists in the areas of software engineering, data science, analytics, and finance. Since JUMO was founded in 2014, the company doubled its staff complement each year for two consecutive years, and it was recently recognized by the London Stock Exchange Group as one of the Companies to Inspire Africa in 2019.

Founded in 2015, JUMO’s mission is to empower emerging market entrepreneurs with financial choices. It has been an exciting and challenging journey, with many achievements and setbacks. At times, we have had to make difficult decisions, most recently this has been to focus on delivering a strong, lean operating model that builds on our clear successes and reduces our exposure in untested markets.

At JUMO we believe that we have the opportunity in our lifetime to connect every entrepreneur to the financial products they need to grow and prosper. We need exceptional people in key roles to make that happen. Joining JUMO requires boldness, resilience, and innovation. You will need to embrace change and operate comfortably in uncharted territory.

As a&nbsp;Senior Systems Development Engineer&nbsp;you will help scale and automate our financial services platform as the organization grows across regions worldwide.&nbsp; The work you’ll do will require you to be intellectually curious, and a clear but passionate thinker, capable of driving and facilitating innovation. You’ll work closely with our software engineering, data engineering, IT, and Information Security teams to build our infrastructure and support the production environment.

You will report to your Systems Development Tech Lead.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too.&nbsp;

At JUMO, we believe that diversity strengthens our teams and strive in our recruitment process to create an environment where people from every background can collaborate and prosper and be themselves.&nbsp;

Senior Sys Dev Engineer

With best-in-class bug and feedback reporting, secure crash reporting, intuitive in-app surveys, and powerful infrastructure that supports over two billion devices and counting, Instabug is the most intuitive way of collecting Real-Time Contextual Insights throughout the entire mobile app life-cycle, empowering you to accelerate your workflow and release with confidence.

We Help Mobile Teams with:
80% less negative reviews
650% more user feedback
30% less time in managing and logging bugs

- Experience in managing large scale web applications in production

- Strong experience with AWS or GCP or Azure

- Strong Experience with building distributed services using cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, Openshift, or Docker.

- Strong in solving Infrastructure related problems with code and you’ve mastered building compute capacity in a fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for leading key projects in design, development, and post-release support of the tools that are used by a variety of internal teams at Instabug

- Will evaluate new technologies to solve problems as needed, and also play a significant role in the architectural direction

- Architect and implement robust solutions for the infrastructure host management using industry standards and frameworks Orchestrate environment development using Kubernetes, Terraform, and/or Cloud Formation.

- Experience of the full software delivery lifecycle and working in complex enterprise environments.

- Solid experience with either Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Saltstack.

- Solid understanding of Micro-services and APIs.

- Possess a Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field have at least 6 years of experience, ideally within a DevOps role.

- Pay strong attention to detail and deliver work that is of a high standard

- Strong mentor and coach who can build high performing teams.

- Experience of working with AWS (ideally) or GCP or Azure cloud providers

- Build and release automation tools: Jenkins, GIT, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes.

- Solid technical background/understanding in DevOps, Software Engineering or Infrastructure

Infrastructure Team Lead

Careem is the internet platform for the greater Middle East region. A pioneer of the region's ride-hailing economy, Careem is expanding services across its platform to become the region's everyday Super App. Careem's mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Established in July 2012, Careem operates in over 100 cities across 13 countries and has created more than one million employment opportunities in the region. Careem became a wholly owned subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. in January 2020.

We are looking for engineers who will work within the SRE team to focus on supporting the service teams on their automation and Infrastructure level requirements,&nbsp;by&nbsp;increasing monitoring and alerting capabilities, CI/CD and Kubernetes adaptations and enabling them to take cloud-native technology to the next level within Careem.&nbsp;

We need expert, execution-focused engineers to help shape the future of the Careem platform and to help us scale our already sizable effort greatly.&nbsp;

As an SRE in Careem, you'll architect, build and maintain several Infrastructure level components and its corresponding ecosystem required to ensure resilience, reliability of our services and speed up deployments with the aim of improving our products used by millions of customers every day. Key responsibilities include:

Working in an international environment with colleagues from 70+ nationalities, ownership culture, flexible working hours, unlimited (paid!) holidays and the latest technologies.

Careem gives equal opportunities. All aspects of ownership including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.

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