Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers in implementation and maintenance of mission-critical systems and projects through training, coaching and mentoring.
• Provide technical leadership to Montran Africa’s product sales and service support teams that service existing and prospective Clients.
• Champion cross-office collaborations with Montran’s global teams in technical matters and assist regional sales technically oriented enquiries originated by Montran’s global Service Managers.
• Facilitate appropriate in-house training of our Africa Team and ensure in-time contributions in all collaborative projects with Montran’s global teams.
• Lead technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions across components and integrations, in implementation projects.
• Model business processes and translate them into clear, domain-driven software structures.
• Own the lifecycle of assigned components – from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Perform code reviews, enforce engineering standards, and mentor less experienced developers.
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, delivery and product teams to ensure quality, reliability, and smooth delivery.
• Contribute to process improvement, automation, and modernization initiatives regionally and beyond.
• Act as the Regional Executive Director’s principal technical adviser to provide expertise in client interactions and corporate advisory and reporting.
• Work closely with the Regional Executive Director in our Africa office in Nairobi to create, foster and reinforce a dynamic, disciplined, supportive and family-friendly work environment both in-office and cross-office collaborations.

Required Specifications:
Skills & knowledge: 

• Excellent command of Java SE/EE, with strong understanding of distributed processing, data consistency, distributed transactions, horizontal and vertical scalability. 
• Deep experience building and maintaining modular, scalable enterprise systems using JEE and Spring Boot or similar frameworks.
• Demonstrably strong grasp of software architecture patterns (layered architecture, service-based architecture, event-driven systems, domain-driven design).
• Considerable experience with SQL and relational database design (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Easy familiarity with messaging, APIs, and integration frameworks (JMS, Kafka, REST).
• Proficiency in unit testing, integration testing, and test automation.
• Provable experience with SCM, build and deployment tools (Git, Gradle, Maven, Docker, CI/CD pipelines).
• Demonstrable experience of working in Linux-based environments.
• A clear, precise communicator in English: able to confidently explain and articulate technical and business matters. 
• Comfortable and committed to working full-time at a physical office location to guarantee daily oversight of other technical staff with occasional late working hours to service client emergencies and other urgent needs.
• Available and able to travel regionally and internationally on request.