Job Title: Engineering Lead - Java

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Company Overview:

Dot.ai is an AI-led neobank with a mission to revolutionize financial services in Africa. We provide innovative and inclusive financial solutions that enable people and businesses to thrive. We believe in leveraging technology to deliver affordable, convenient, and reliable financial services to underserved communities in Africa.

Job Overview:

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Lead (Java) for our Banking team. We are looking for a Java developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical direction and engineering leadership for a team of engineers
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers
• Contributing to the design and development of new products and features
• Ensuring that engineering processes are followed
• Maintaining product quality

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field
• At least 7 years of experience in engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
• Strong understanding of engineering principles and processes.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors and make adjustments in a testing environment.
• Competence and comfort using frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot).
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate).