• Application Deadline:
• Position: Software Engineer - Identity Management for Canonical Products


• Job Type Full Time , Remote


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

What you'll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team


• Write clean web service APIs to support both CLI and web frontend clients, using Python (and optionally Golang).


• Design and implement new features and enhancements from spec to production and ongoing operations at scale.


• Review code produced by other engineers


• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions.


• Create and enhance management, authentication and authorization API endpoints


• Craft end-user authentication flows from design to implementation


• Modernize the identity stack of our websites and products by driving adoption of best-of-breed IAM technologies


• Deliver great products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence


• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who you are

• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree


• You are a software engineer, with specific experience building identity and access management products


• You are familiar with the open source software, standards, protocols and concepts in the identity space (e.g. OpenID, OAuth, LDAP)


• You have experience implementing authorization frameworks in distributed systems


• You value secure coding and standards, and enjoy working on teams that do the same


• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment


• You love technology and working with a diverse set of talented people.


• You are comfortable with Ubuntu as a development and deployment platform.


• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable


• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated


• You love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, with a view to building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere