Back-end Software Developer

About the Company

RS2 offers secure payment services, payment software and managed services to clients in over 35 countries. The company upholds the highest industry standards and RS2’s in-house designed payments solution is the software of choice by many of the world’s leading and most innovative banks and financial institutions.

About the Role

As a Back-end Software Developer you will be responsible for developing and maintaining first class solutions for tier 1 financial institutions around the world. Forming part of a large team of experienced professionals you will be participating in different areas of the software development life-cycle and specialize in a range of different areas from design, development, maintenance and quality assurance of our products and services. Liaising with different parts of the business, you will be dealing with Business Analysts, Project Managers and other internal functions in order to fulfil client requirements

Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire application life cycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Build and perform unit tests
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Clearly document solutions for all stakeholders
• Optimization of applications for maximum performance and scalability
• Collaborate with other team members to establish objectives and design functional requirements
• Analyse, Design and Document new requirements
• Perform under pressure and have the ability to deal with and solve problems quickly and accurately with limited supervision
• Taking lead on projects when needed

Qualifications

• Be in possession of a degree in computing/engineering or a similar recognized qualification

Required Skills

• Gain an interest in how the payments industry works and explore new trends in the industry
• Have good knowledge of software development life-cycle processes
• Experience working with PL/SQL and SQL would be considered an asset
• Has experience working with RDBMS Databases (ex. Oracle SQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL databases (ex. MongoDB, Scylla);
• Knowledge in Ruby, Python and Jenkins would be considered an asset
• Knowledge in micro services and APIs would be considered an asset
• Meticulous, methodical and accurate approach for the completion of tasks
• Able to work in a team
• Have strong organisational and time management skills, able to prioritize across different tasks and meet deadlines as per business exigencies
• Strong communication and writing skills in English

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