Optasia is a fully enabled B2B2X financial technology platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement and collection. We are committed to enabling financial inclusion for all. We are changing the world our way.
We are seeking for enthusiastic professionals, with energy, who are results driven and have can-do attitude, who want to be part of a team of likeminded individuals who are delivering solutions in an innovative and exciting environment. As a Software & Performance Engineer, you will be pivotal in the development of software that provides real solutions. You will be deeply involved in the entire software development lifecycle and an integral part of all procedures to design, code, analyze and document application programs in Spring Framework. Working closely with other teams, you will be actively contributing to the process of evolving the company's products and you will play an important role in identifying and applying appropriate modern technologies and techniques for software development.
What you will do
- Monitor and support production environments
- Collaborate with other engineers to design, implement and publish to the world, demanding fintech services using Spring Framework
- Identify and apply appropriate modern technologies and techniques for software development
- Perform load-tests, analyze results, find root cause of performance issues and provide appropriate solutions proactively
- Troubleshoot challenging performance and stability issues in real world environments
What you will bring
- At least 5 years' of experience in a similar role
- Passion about software development
- Passion about application performance, reliability and scalability
- Strong software development skills in Java, Spring and bash scripting
- Solid foundation regarding computer science fundamentals including systems and networks
- Experience with distributed high concurrency and high throughput applications
- Experience and understanding of Relational databases, modeling and tuning for high throughput applications (Postgres)
- Experience and understanding of load balancers and reverse proxies (httpd, nginx)
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Elastic, Cassandra, Mongo) will be considered a plus
- Experience with queueing and event streaming systems
- Knowledge of using, configuring and setup of container orchestration tools (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes) will be considered a plus
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools would be considered a plus
- Experience in working with secure code development guidelines and coding practices (i.e. OWASP, NIST)
Your key attributes
- Strong desire for exploring, evaluating and understanding in depth old and new technologies
- Passion for learning new technologies and eagerness to collaborate with other creative minds
- Excellent judgment, organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to hit tight deadlines and work under pressure and strict attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills and team working mentality
Why you should apply
What we offer:
💸 Competitive remuneration package
🏝 Extra day off on your birthday
💰 Performance-based bonus scheme
👩🏽⚕️ Comprehensive private healthcare insurance
📲 💻 All the tech gear you need to work smart
Optasia’s Perks:
🎌 Be a part of a multicultural working environment
🎯 Meet a very unique and promising business and industry
🌌 🌠 Gain insights for tomorrow market’s foreground
🎓 A solid career path within our working family is ready for you
📚 Continuous training and access to online training platforms
🥳 CSR activities and festive events within any possible occasion
🍜 Enjoy comfortable open space restaurant with varied meal options every day
🎾 🧘️ Wellbeing activities access such as free on-site yoga classes, plus available squash court on our premises
Optasia’s Values 🌟
#1 Drive to Thrive: Fully dedicated to evolving. We welcome all challenges and learning opportunities.
#2 Customer-First Mindset: We go above and beyond to meet our partners’ and clients’ expectations.
#3 Bridge the Gap: Knowledge is shared, information is exchanged and every opinion counts.
#4 Go-Getter Spirit: We are results oriented. We identify any shortcomings that hold us back and step up to do what’s needed.
#5 Together we will do it: We are committed to supporting one another and to understanding and respecting different perspectives, as we aim to reach our common goals.
Top Skills
What We Do
We deliver Optasia, the AI Platform enabling financial access for the next billion customers. We are changing the world our way.
Α versatile, data-driven B2B2X (business-to-business-to-customers and SMEs) financial technology platform for MNOs, mobile wallet operators and financial institutions, which provides them with accurate credit scoring for responsible financing decision-making.
We support intelligent credit decisions, enable a broad range of financial services development and drive successful business models. All with ease, through our AI-led fully-automated decisioning algorithm, which allows us to efficiently make millions of decisions on financing, based on sophisticated data analysis.
Thanks to our technology and network we provide powerful flywheel effects with repeatable and scalable growth levers, to help our partners grow and enable financial access to retail & SME customers across numerous markets.
Operating since 2012 as Channel VAS and expanded in more than 35 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia and LATAM with focus in emerging markets, Optasia Enabling credit decisions for an average of 116 million customers a month and had more than 980 million addressable subscribers in 2023, continuing to expand to new markets globally.
Optasia has been chosen as an investment opportunity by top firms such as Abu Dhabi's Waha Capital in 2017, and Ethos, a leading South African investment company in late 2018. The company also obtained ISO 27001 Certification in late 2021. Founded as Channel VAS in 2012, we became Optasia in 2022, incorporating a brand identity that more broadly reflects our capabilities.
