• Application Deadline:
• Position: Senior Full-stack Engineer - Software Development


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Description

Technology Group:

• Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments.


• This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day.


• Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations.Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world.

Software Development Department:

• The software development department handles all aspects of delivery related to our custom software applications and services - everything that it takes to turn an idea into working software and delivering value to our users.


• The department is structured into cross-functional, self-organising teams that work together on projects, short and long, alongside product designers and key business stakeholders.

About the Role

• We are looking for a full time Lead Full-Stack Engineer to head up one of our cross-functional software development teams, which builds the software that powers and improves our competitive advantage.


• In addition to being technically excellent and an individual contributor, a Team Lead is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of their project (looking across all disciplines and technology stacks) and for ensuring that their team is following agreed norms and processes.


• This person should be familiar with design and implementation issues specific to a data driven, highly scalable environments and be able to handle such issues with flexibility and ingenuity.


• The ideal candidate will have a strong customer focus, a proven track record of delivering high-quality products in a continuous delivery environment, and an appreciation for clean and simple code.

Responsibilities

What You Will Do:

• Design, implement, and support new products and features, including overseeing the technical design and architecture of projects


• Grow and lead an software development team of 5-7 engineers 


• Collaborate with project sponsors and product designers to elaborate requirements and facilitate trade-offs that maximise value


• Analyse and improve the overall software architecture, with a focus on maintainability and scalability


• Mentor and develop members of the team, from daily interactions to broader professional development goals

Requirements

What You Should Have:

• A BA / BS in Computer Science or a related technical field


• Minimum of  5 years of enterprise software development experience


• Comfort recommending and advocating for enterprise architectural best practices for highly-available, scalable, and reliable implementations; but also the experience to take on technical debt where appropriate


• Enterprise-level experience with continuous delivery practises and tools


• Advocacy of test-driven development (TDD) and/or behaviour driven development (BDD)


• Experience with pair-programming and other XP practises a plus


• Expertise in several of the following areas (and interested in learning about the rest):                       
  
  
  
  • Web services and API design, especially in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem
  
  
  • Android applications, especially “offline-first”
  
  
  • JavaScript Web Applications, especially Progressive Web Applications
  
  
  • Data engineering - data pipelines that cleanse, classify, and aggregate data sets
  
  
  • Highly scalable architectures (e.g. CQRS, Event Sourcing,  queues, circuit breakers, etc.)
  
  
  • Monitoring in all its forms - error monitoring, synthetic monitoring, performance monitoring, user monitoring, etc.
  
  
  • Security and identity management - OAuth, penetration testing, software supply chain
  
  
  • Cloud and Hybrid deployment models
  
  
  • Databases and ORMs - esp. MS SQL Server/T-SQL (and EF, Dapper, etc.); but also other forms of persistence
  
  
  
  


• Experience in a lean delivery environment and understand not only the mechanics, but also the underlying motivations


• NewGlobe uses primarily .NET (server-side), Vue.JS (web apps) and Kotlin (Android native), so experience in these toolchains is preferable; however, NewGlobe also values developers with diverse experience, so serious exposure to other languages and ecosystems (e.g. NodeJS, Ruby, functional languages, NoSQL DBs) is a bonus


• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high


• Interest in open source projects – familiarity with OSS projects is a plus; contributions to open source projects is a big plus

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.


• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.


• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team


• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.