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Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) to make and receive payments in a convenient, borderless manner. The role: Flutterwave is looking for Backend Engineers – Java to design, implement, maintain and support software systems powering its products in the financial domain. What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be Like • In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organization's strategy, product, and service offerings. • Research and implement best practices technology frameworks/capability models that will control costs, provide higher quality, and/or increase reliability. • Research and stay abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the payment industry. • Career mentoring, coaching and development of a talented group of engineers. • Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product features/enhancements in an agile environment. • Development of features and RESTful APIs with an event driven Microservice architecture. • Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements. • Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications. • Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team. • Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles. • Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as set up automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability. • Always maintain code and application security while adhering to data protection and privacy standards. • Leverage AI coding agents and assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot) to accelerate development, review, and testing, while maintaining code quality security, and ownership of what ships. • Design and build APIs and services that AI agents can consume safely: clear contracts, structured outputs, authentication, and rate limiting. • Ensure personal information of customers, employees, and partners is processed and protected in line with data privacy laws and global best practices. Required competency and skill set to be a Waver: • 5-6 years of experience with Java / JEE / Spring Boot and associated technologies. • Must have hands-on experience on java 8, multithreading, Jvm tuning, performance improvements. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Excellent Data structures and algorithms as well as creative skills to apply them in solving problems. • Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies. • Hands-on experience working with AI coding assistants/agents to boost productivity, with sound judgment on when to trust, verify, or override their output. • Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies. • Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and quality assurance skills. • Excellent time management and analytical skills. • Excellent DevOps knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP. Nice to have: • NodeJs experience • Understanding of Docker/K8s • Kafka Experience • Experience building agent-facing or agent-integrated systems (tool/function calling, MCP, LLM API integration, prompt design or agentic workflows). Click here for the Recruitment Privacy Notice and Flutterwave Privacy Policy