Ruby On Rails Lead - Strategic Projects

ABOUT YABX:

Yabx is a global FinTech venture of Comviva, aimed at simplifying financial access for the 2 Bn+ underbanked people in emerging markets across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We use technology and analytics to reduce the cost of delivering financial services. In doing so, we partner with leading Telecom Operators, Banks, MFIs, Credit Bureaus, and Mobile Financial Services. Yabxs mission is to create world-class innovative products to improve the lives of these people.

What you ll do:

As an Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for driving the execution, quality, and delivery of key components of our product suite. You will lead a team of engineers, ensuring strong engineering practices, scalable design, and seamless execution across projects.
You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to build high-performance, reliable, and scalable systems as we work toward our vision of becoming the world s leading lending platform.

If you enjoy solving complex challenges, building scalable systems, and leading talented engineers toward excellence, you will thrive at YABX.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect, design, and develop backend systems, RESTful APIs, and core components of our industry-leading SaaS lending platform with a strong focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.

• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, guiding architectural decisions, establishing best practices, and ensuring alignment with long-term product vision.

• Mentor, coach, and elevate a team of high-performing engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability.

• Research, evaluate, and introduce modern technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns to solve complex engineering challenges and future-proof the platform.

• Propose, implement, and continuously refine performance enhancements, optimization techniques, and scalable design strategies to support rapid growth and high transaction volumes.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineering teams, DevOps, QA, and design to ensure seamless integration and delivery of mission-critical features.

• Own the end-to-end architecture of assigned modules, ensuring high availability, security compliance, fault tolerance, and adherence to industry best practices.

• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and design audits to maintain high-quality engineering craftsmanship across the platform.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in Ruby on Rails (RoR) and its associated ecosystem.

• Ability to convert product requirements into robust, scalable engineering solutions.

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams to deliver high-quality, production-grade software.

• Strong understanding of multithreading, background job processing, scheduling, and related frameworks.

• Hands-on experience with microservices architectures and distributed system patterns.

• Proficiency in Linux-based systems and command-line operations.

• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as RSpec and Cucumber.

• Strong foundation in object-oriented programming and metaprogramming concepts.

• Experience working with relational databases and MongoDB.

• Working knowledge of server configuration, infrastructure management, and deployment practices.

• Proficiency with version control systems, preferably Git.