Employment Opportunities at Softcom Limited

Softcom was established in 2007 with a mission to “connect people and businesses with meaningful innovation”. A technology company which aims to solve problems that will connect people and businesses to value that ultimately improves their lives. We want our products to enable inclusion and growth for people and businesses in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Back-End Developer

Job Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Category: Engineering & Innovation

Description

• As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the platform services.
• You will help guide the technical decisions around building highly available and reliable services while working with the product and design teams to enable new features and capabilities for our customers.

Job Responsibilities
Your job responsibilities include the following:

• Liaising with developers, designers and other stakeholders to identify and implement new features.
• Maintaining our Nodejs/Golang systems
• Using and developing internal tools and documentation.
• Collaborating with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Designing and developing modern APIs that integrate with server backends
• Promoting engineering best practices and helping to define our technical roadmap for the team
• Focusing on providing fault tolerant systems that enable rapid development without negatively impacting our customers.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with JVM (Java, Kotlin,etc.) or Javascript (NodeJs) and/or Golang languages
• Experience in implementing, providing architectural feedback and delivery of complex software solutions
• Experience and a desire to perform and grow as a technical leader and engineer
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and provide technical guidance when needed
• Demonstrated ability and desire to mentor other engineers
• Experience with AWS and container solutions
• Experience working in the payments industry
• Experience or education in security or cryptography
• Stay up to date with current best practices
• Manage cutting edge tools and technologies to improve applications

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

Job Position: Industry Solutions Specialist

Job Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Category: Products

Description

• As an Industry Solutions Specialist, you’ll be a key member of the product and solutions team. In true startup fashion, this role encompasses several functions, and you must be comfortable wearing multiple hats
• Our Industry Solutions Specialists are technical experts responsible for designing solutions for our target industries by leveraging our tools, resources and partnerships. You’ll also be involved in driving and managing the technical part of a sales engagement
• This is a fantastic opportunity to join our growing team at a very exciting time. With plans to continue scaling, we’re looking for an ambitious Industry Solutions Specialist to demonstrate Softcom's offerings and tailor them to suit the specific needs for our target industries
• As the industry solution specialist, you will have a deep understanding of all Softcom’s products, handle tough objections, and lead successful evaluation cycles to gain solutions-fit consensus.

Responsibilities

• Design solutions for our target industries by developing a deep understanding of the common problems faced by the industry and leveraging our tools, resources and partnerships
• Partner with account managers and executives to drive complex, multi-stakeholder deal cycles across our target industries
• Building and maintaining trust with customers by leveraging client context to understand customer goals and create a value-based relationship
• Working closely with the sales team on account strategy and identifying additional opportunities in existing accounts
• Developing and delivering exceptional product and solution presentations and demonstrations
• Work with the Product, Design and Engineering teams to provide feedback from the field and represent the customer perspective with the goal of developing more robust and innovative products
• Identify and work with partners on product extensions and integrations designed to address identified customer and industry needs in order to ensure timely and cost-efficient delivery.

Requirements

• 4+ years of sales engineering or solution consulting experience in a SaaS organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; a knack for delivering compelling presentations
• A consultative approach with solving your customer’s business challenges and have a track record of successfully overcoming technical and security objections
• Problem solving is in your DNA
• Familiarity with the enterprise SaaS ecosystem. Some fintech experience will help too
• Ability to thrive and adapt to a rapidly evolving market that will define the future of business growth.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

Job Position: Product Designer

Job Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Category: Engineering & Innovation

Description

• As a Designer, you envision how people experience our products and bring that vision to life in a way that creates delight.
• You’ll work in collaboration with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers, and Product Managers throughout the design process.
• At each stage, you will strive to learn everything you can about user’s behaviors, attitudes, and emotions to help define the products and experiences we create.

Responsibilities
A typical day for you would look like:

• Partner on new features from idea to implementation
• Participate in and driving UX research activities. You must be a strong user advocate.
• Translate problems and new concepts into intuitive and clean UIs.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
• Contribute to overall Design Team processes and libraries.

Requirements

• 4+ years of work experience as a user experience designer with an emphasis on solid human-centered design and research methods
• An amazing portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating exceptional user-centered design solutions with measurable results
• Expertise in design and research tools like Figma, Adobe XD, Principle, Dovetail, Lookback, Maze, or Framer.
• Experience in Design Thinking and Agile methodologies
• Fantastic teamwork and communication skills to effectively collaborate with multi-functional and multi-disciplined teams.
• Ability to articulate and champion design solutions from conception to launch with very minimal supervision, incorporating research data.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

Job Position: Motion Graphics Designer

Job Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Category: Engineering & Innovation

Description

• This is a dual role that would support both the animation and the graphic design team. You would be responsible for creating high-quality visual representations of the animation's narratives.
• You are required to work closely with our design team to develop inspiring artwork that will attract our target audience.
• You will be responsible for formulating concepts and rendering draft illustrations from written words, models, sketched ideas, and from your imagination.
• As a designer, you would work closely with the design team in brand ideation and the creation of collateral such as slides, social media ads, brochures, etc.

Responsibilities

• Create storyboards for omnichannel video campaigns.
• Work with our design team to create quality creative content.
• Collaborate with internal & external video producers, stakeholders, and designers to come up with appropriate solutions.
• Enable the team to translate rough ideas into motion graphics / rapid prototypes quickly.
• Help innovate and be ahead of the game with your insights.
• Organize and create a structure for motion graphics resources and relevant assets.
• Participate in brainstorming and concept sessions with the design team and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Create conceptual illustrations, workflows, stories, and storyboards.

Requirements

• 4+ years of motion graphics experience
• Proficiency in Adobe CC – Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premier.
• Proficient in 2D & 3D design, animation, and compositing, a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in storytelling, composition, texture, color, and animation.
• Experience creating brand identity through creative motion design.
• Experience in layout and animation of typography.
• A desire to learn and share new techniques and tools.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team is a must.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt techniques and tools in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills and able to articulate ideas in a clear and concise manner
• Must have a portfolio/reel highlighting your range and quality of professional creative work to be considered for this position.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online