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JOB TITLE: Backend Engineer
JOB LOCATION: Lagos (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Term
Minimum Experience: Mid-level
JOB DETAILS:
- We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you’re:
- Interested in building products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
- An experienced Backend Engineer that is passionate about building scalable and reliable web platforms.
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we’re happy for people to build new skills, specialize or move between teams.
- As an engineer here you’d be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as a Backend Engineer ?
- You’ll be working as part of a cross-disciplinary group that prioritizes user needs, challenges assumptions, and iterates quickly, using data and running experiments to develop secure, robust, and scalable solutions.
How will you make impact?
- You will be a part of our backend team responsible for managing the interchange of data between our servers and users.
- As you know, Backend Engineering primarily focuses on the development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Define and deliver resilient software that meets and exceeds the expectations of your team, managers, and product stakeholders.
- Develop readable, testable, and maintainable code to spec.
- Commitment to continued technical and professional growth.
- Interfacing with stakeholders to understand their business, goals, and visions for products supported by the product organisation.
- Lending your knowledge and positive approach to overall team development.
- Frameworks, and technologies we use include but are not limited to:
- NodeJs + TypeScript
- Kubernetes + Helm
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Docker
- MongoDB
- Github + CircleCI
- Loki + Grafana.
Qualifications & Characteristics
As the ideal candidate for this role you have:
- At least 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for web applications
- Are proficient in writing code in Javascript or TypeScript, go, and enjoy learning new languages.
- Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases like Postgres or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with key-value databases like Redis or memcached.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests.
- Good knowledge of Docker, container orchestration and microservices architecture
- Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications
- Exposure to Agile methodologies.
- Experience working remotely as an effective member of a team.
- Fun collaborating, problem-solving, and being part of a team environment.
- A vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written).
- The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and limited supervision.
- The ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
You should apply if:
- You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
- You deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
- You’re interested in building distributed systems and tackling the fun challenges and complexity that comes with that.
- You understand the importance of prioritization in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
- You’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
- You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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Job Features
Job Category | Software/ Programming / Web development |