We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Engineering
About the Role
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- Are you an entrepreneurial Backend Engineer looking to build impactful products? As a Backend Engineer at Klasha, you’ll be joining a high-performing team that is the bedrock of our offering.
- This role would suit a resourceful, high-performance IC with experience in greenfield projects.
- We’re a Seed-stage startup, so ideally you’d be comfortable wearing multiple hats.
- We’re learning quickly, shipping regularly, and working cross-functionally to build the future of commerce in Africa. You’ll join a mission-led team that cares deeply about connecting Africa with the global economy.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with the Frontend Engineers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
- Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
- Define and communicate technical and design requirements.
- Provide training, help and support to other team members.
- Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future.
- Build and scale our product with input from other team members.
- Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean code.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications.
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of designers and engineers.
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of experience as a backend engineer, ideally in a Fintech startup environment
- Fluent application of Java (JDK version), Spring boot, Eureka, Zuul.
- Familiarity with Github, Hibernate, Apache Kafka, Postgresql.
- Knowledge of Design Patterns
- Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
- Focus on efficiency, user experience and process improvement.
- Excellent project and time management skills.
- Strong problem-solving, verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work independently or with a group.
- Ability to move fast and adapt as the business requires.
- Strong knowledge of the African and/or Global payments and logistics ecosystem would be an advantage.
- Previous experience with functional programming would be an advantage .
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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