• Application Deadline:
• Position: Staff Back-End Engineer



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 10 years



• Location Lagos




• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  
  

About The Role

• As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will drive the technical standards for the Backend across our consumer domain, working with multiple squads inside the domain. 


• You will lead Backend engineers with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and feature development and release cycle. 


• You will mentor junior developers. 


• You will contribute to scaling up Backend engineers in multiple squads and bringing great talents on board by conducting technical interviews.

About Your Role

• Design, build and maintain features for the domain applications


• Provide technical leadership and manage dependencies


• Conduct design and code reviews


• Help the domain team members with technical blockers supporting them and helping them grow


• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency


• Participate in architecture and design discussions


• Participate strongly in building the technical roadmap


• Conduct technical interviews


• Help Improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Owner of these projects:

• Perform feasibility studies to validate capability and functionality


• Draft and submit intellectual property


• Research and assess current technologies


• Develop and execute complex, multi-tier distributed software search applications


• Create technical and domain expertise and apply to products and problems


• Assess and write code to improve or extend application


• Manage and assist current software applications


• Experience providing technical leadership, and mentoring others

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in backend engineering with NodeJS


• Strong foundation in programming fundamentals


• Excellent communication skills


• Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals


• Solid understanding of X


• Substantial experience with Git in a team environment


• Experience writing testable code and unit tests


• Experience in a fast-growing startup in a the on-demand services space is a plus


• Have a deep knowledge of React and NodeJS, and you have experience developing products with it


• Experience using modern JavaScript and tooling in a full-stack setting


• Extensive experience with A/B experiments and have a data-driven attitude toward product development.