Senior Platform Engineer

Ajua is The Integrated Customer Experience Solution for Businesses in Africa. We exist to bridge the gap between businesses and their customers. Ajua’s technology integrates with businesses at the points that matter most to their customers to measure and optimize their Customer Experience. Our plug and play platform has enabled leading brands of various sizes and industries on the continent to create actionable strategies that drive business growth. Ajua is a Silicon Valley and Africa Venture Capital backed growth stage start-up, and Africa’s first Integrated Customer Experience (#IntegratedCX) company driving business growth and giving consumers options on the continent. Are you ready to lead in the building of technologies to solve the continent s most pressing challenges? Then this opportunity is for you! We are looking for a talented Sr. Platform Engineer who shares our passion for building software solutions and the next technologies across the continent. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, the Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for building outstanding software solutions to support our real time data platform. The candidate should demonstrate the following skills : Maintain Ajua’s platform uptime, performance, stability and scalability Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others Develop, maintain, and scale a world class public API Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests Experience working with data processing technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc) Experience working with Data Scientists to develop rich value added features Experience working with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system Experience working with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability Experience working with Machine Learning and using large-scale data repository for business intelligence; App development a plus. Closely monitor all platform related production systems Periodically pe