• Application Deadline:
• Position: Backend Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 4 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Job Description

• We’re looking for an enthusiastic backend software engineer to join our team. Your primary responsibilities include architecting, implementing, releasing and supporting features that enable our collaborative product model.


• A commitment to collaborative problem solving and creating high-quality products is essential.

You’ll be expected to:

• Explore, define and develop new technologies and architecture


• Re-evaluate existing technologies to constantly improve our platform


• Improve upon and build new business-critical features and infrastructure

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features


• Design and develop backend and data layers of the software that will run across web and mobile apps


• Work with smart algorithm processes to scale software from thousands to millions of transactions


• Set up staging and sandbox environments to test software functionality and efficiency


• Build smart data collection techniques to better understand user behaviors and experience


• Tackle software bugs and technical troubleshooting


• Support customer-witnessed testing


• Build reusable code and libraries for future use


• Critically look at the user problems and design process flows and improve them


• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand member pain points and come up with solutions


• Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems


• Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards

Requirements

You have:

• 4+ years developing software in a production environment at scale


• A deep understanding of Python


• Very good understanding of APIs and Django Rest framework


• Very good understanding of Celery, RabbitMQ


• Very good understanding of socket programming


• Ability to 'mould' efficient queries to perform tasks on time


• Must have built awesome software before that had live active users


• Knowledge of technological trends


• Working knowledge of Git


• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research


• Experience working with transactional databases (MySQL DB, PostgreSQL) and caching systems (Memcached, Redis)


• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale mobile applications


• An appreciation for maintainable and well-tested code

Who are we looking for?

• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product


• Impact and mission driven


• Champion mentality; result and goal orientated


• Great team player with humility


• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely


• A keen and strategic problem solver


• Enjoy learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work

You possibly have:

• Experience with Node.js


• Experience with AWS as the cloud provider. Accepted alternatives are GCP or Azure


• Experience with Flask or FastAPI is desired but not required


• Experience with Test-Driven Development