Company Overview🚀
Khazna was founded in 2019 with a mission to improve the financial well-being of the underbanked, who have little access to formal financial services by providing access to convenient, effective and secure smartphone-based financial services. Khazna has received the Central Bank of Egypt’s first prepaid card license and aims to become the go-to specialized bank for underbanked mid-to-low-income consumers across the Middle East. In the next phase of its journey, Khazna is looking to continue scaling up its operations in Egypt and to launch its operations in Saudi Arabia.
🌟We are consistently on the lookout for rock stars to help us solve for financial inclusion.
We are looking for an experienced Software Architect who is passionate about technology, proficient in conveying technical concepts, and motivated by new challenges. This candidate should possess strong technical skills, as well as excellent communication skills to guide and share best practices with the team
Responsibilities📋
- Taking the initiative in the development of scalable and secure software systems
- Define and disseminate best practices in development.
- Direct the team and ensure the consistency and quality of all outputs.
- Capability to design a system with high load and concurrency
- Investigating new technology and putting them to use
- Define all development factors, from proper technology and methodology to code standards.
- Lead third-party integrations, including requirements gathering and proof of concept completion.
- Define monitoring and alerting strategies and ensure that they are followed by the appropriate teams.
- Resolve technical issues, conflicts, and challenges, as well as make tradeoffs
Communicate with management and stakeholders
- Take appropriate technological decisions to cover the system's non-functional criteria (availability, security, reliability, maintainability, portability, and testability and performance)
Qualifications🎓
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in architect large-scale software products.
- Experience with principles of application architecture for NodeJS applications, in a web and mobile accessible distributed environment.
- Experience in microservices architecture, using REST APIs
- Experience with the deployment, administration and monitoring of web applications and services.
- Experience in DevOps implementation and deployment with Jenkins.
- Experience in PaaS and SaaS hosting over cloud services (e.g. GCP, Azure).
- Experience with one or more configuration management systems
- Experience with one or more ALM systems (preferably JIRA)
- Experience in various testing frameworks and methodologies
- Good knowledge of Cybersecurity standards and open source technologies
- Experience in relational (MySQL, MariaDB) and NoSQL (Mongo) databases
- Experience with message-broker platforms (e.g. RabbitMQ)
- Excellent knowledge of UML and ERD
- Excellent communication skills, with fluency in written and spoken English
- Rigorous and speak with data
- Results oriented and team spirit focus
- Capacity to deep dive when needed to support
- Capacity to anticipate and manage technical risks
- Responsible, Committed and Proactive
✨ Join Khazna and contribute your skills and expertise to our mission of revolutionizing digital payments 💳 and driving financial inclusion 🌍 across the region.
🚀 Apply now to be part of a team that is shaping the future of finance in Egypt and Saudi Arabia!
