Senior Functional Software Engineer Functional Software Engineer

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  • Full Time
  • Nairobi

Website Tezza Business Solutions Ltd

Tezza Business Solutions Ltd is a "niche” service provider of Software Development, Quality Assurance and Software Testing services. Tezza began its operations as Web Development company in 2000 in Overland Park, Kansas. Since then, we’ve evolved into a Services-oriented company who only engage … read morein Product development as a value-add service to our customers who continue to appreciate our "Customer First” Service Delivery approach. Tezza opened its first office in Kenya in 2009 with a primary goal of building capacity of qualified software development and testing resources to work on outsourced projects from North America. Whilst we are partners and reseller of solutions today, our primary interest is in providing services; the products we sell are sold in conjunction with the services we provide. Since 2009, Tezza has grown in size and reputation with over 150 resources and offices in key 4 East and West African countries – Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Tezza has now become the #1 QA and Software Testing Company in East Africa providing services to companies within the Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Telecommunication market verticals.

Key responsibilities:

Backend Development
Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Java Spring Boot (or similar frameworks) and Clojure.
Adhere tclean code principles and industry best practices in all development efforts.
Ensure code quality through pair programming, code reviews, and other collaborative development methods.
Event-Driven Architecture
Implement and maintain event-driven systems using message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud-native equivalents).
Work on publish/subscribe patterns and streaming data pipelines tensure real-time data processing and system responsiveness.
Optimise event flow for performance and scalability.
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Apply TDD principles throughout the software development lifecycle tdeliver robust, maintainable solutions.
Write comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests.
Ensure high test coverage and effectively diagnose, document, and fix bugs.
Architecture and Design
Collaborate with architects and senior engineers tdefine microservices architecture and component interaction.
Partner with senior engineers, solution architects and principal engineers tshape and execute on the technical strategy for your area.
Contribute tarchitectural discussions and decision-making processes, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability of solutions.
Integrate best practices for secure coding, data privacy, and compliance.
Performance Optimization
 Monitor system performance and reliability, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions for performance tuning.
Conduct profiling, load testing, and implement caching strategies tenhance system response times.
Work closely with the platform engineering team toptimize CI/CD pipelines for quick and reliable deployments.
Collaboration and Leadership
Mentor junior engineers on best practices, coding standards, and new technologies.
Collaborate with product managers as well as QA and platform engineers tdeliver features on time and with high quality.

Qualifications and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of professional experience in software development, preferably in a modern backend environment.
Strong proficiency in Java and proven, hands-on experience developing production-grade applications with Spring Boot.
Expertise in designing, building, and operating event-driven microservices architectures.
Proven ability tapply and advocate for Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies.
Direct experience with message brokers/queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) for inter-service communication.
Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, caching layers (e.g., Redis), and RESTful API design.

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