Principal Engineer

What will you do?

If you are passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems and experienced in being in a team of highly competent software engineers impacting millions of lives around you, here is an opportunity tailored for you This will involve working on our existing codebase along with new projects. Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will be felt immediately. All teams at AADL are involved in every part of our development life cycle .

- Brainstorm, contribute new ideas, conceive innovative strategies, and implement solutions to difficult problems

- Own the entire development lifecycle as you prototype, create, optimise, test, launch, and refine

- Play a critical role in ensuring modular and scalable design and architecture of Backend Applications

- Set high standards for monitoring and getting to know challenges faced by customers and improving the experience

- In nutshell you will "Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy, Debug. Repeat!"

What will make you successful?

- B.E./B.Tech in Computer science or Information Technology with Demonstrated experience of 10+ yrs in Backend Java development

- Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals object oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, and complexity analysis

- Strong understanding on both Monolithic and Micro Services architectures. Hands-on experience in developing and deploying Micro Services components preferably using Spring Boot

- It’s important to have fun! Bringing a sense of humor and camaraderie to the team allows for good relationships and communication to flourish.

What do you bring to the table?

- Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach

- Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.

- Strong Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms

- Good experience with databases