JOB TITLE: Senior Backend Engineer
JOB LOCATION: Remote
Job Type: Work from home position
JOB DETAILS
- Our client is looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer located within Africa, to join their exciting remote team.
- They are one of the first movers in bringing Cryptocurrency to the masses in Africa and the Middle East.
- As a Senior Backend Engineeryou will make an extremely high impact on a small, fast scaling team. You’ll have the ability to help build a product used by thousands of people with taking full ownership of the product.
- They are looking for someone who has experience not only with their tech stack in a successful SaaS company, but also with agile methodologies and web development.
- The idea candidates are ones that have previously worked within a FinTech/ Crypto company and who are clear communicators who are highly self-motivated; eager to collaborate, exchange knowledge, apply new skills and pitch in for whatever the team needs to ship new code.
- The company’s current technology includes: NodeJS, VueJS, Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, AWS SQS, AWS IoT, AWS EC2, ELK Stack, Jest, Flutter and more.
Responsibilities
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- Set technical direction and own the architecture and implementation of features
- Provide guidance and assist in helping knock down walls and clear path towards work completion
- Lead a group of engineers and cross-functional team members in the implementation of new and existing features
- Provide clear and concise communication regarding feature development statuses to the team and stakeholders
- Plan, supervise and manage releases for the work the squad is performing
- Empower team members – including other developers as well as Technical Support and QA – through technical mentoring, contributions to the team’s documentation, libraries, and providing automation for manual tasks where appropriate
- Define and adhere to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices
- Ensure quality by performing thorough testing and leveraging peer reviews for your work and the work of cross functional teams
- Help scope, estimate, and prioritize work
- Embrace and demonstrate our values: humility, creativity, and independence
- Write and maintain clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for the future (and present) of the company’s platform
- Participate in mandatory weekly calls
Requirements
- 3-5 years’ work experience as a Backend Engineer/Developer
- Experience in a software development environment, with capability in back-end development
- Strong experience working in AWS, with a strong desire to further one’s skills
- In-depth experience with Node.js, possessing broad knowledge of JavaScript in general and Node.js internals
- Serverless Framework experience advantageous
- State Machine and Step Function experience advantageous
- You have experience driving technical projects, prioritizing work, identifying
- dependencies, facilitating technical decisions and cross-functional team discussions.
- You’re experienced in designing and implementing application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, maintainable, and performant.
- You can work independently while also putting an emphasis on mentorship of those around you.
- You’re comfortable collaborating closely with product managers, product owners, and stakeholders, providing estimates or product ideas that will influence your team’s roadmap.
- You’re a thoughtful communicator—some teams are partially or fully distributed so effective written communication is key.
Remuneration
Salary + Benefits.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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