• Application Deadline:
• Position: Senior Backend Engineer



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA



• Experience 5 years



• Location Lagos




• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  
  

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features and enhancements using NodeJS


• Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process


• Design, innovate, and solve complex problems inherent in operating a large-scaleclassifieds platform


• Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process


• Interact with product owners, partners, and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements


• Debugging and Improvement of Existing Systems


• Expand our micro-services architecture


• Management of all 3rd party tool relationships and integrations from a technical aspect. i.e., SMS providers, Email, APIs, Finance tools, Marketing tools, Business tools, AWS, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field


• 5+ years’ experience working with NodeJS


• Comfortable working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management


• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries — Mocha, Jest, etc


• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understanding its importance


• Experience having worked with at least one Web Framework for your language of choice


• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools


• Familiarity with at least one web server technology — (ex, Apache, Nginx)


• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool — Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI, GitHub Action


• Working knowledge of GRPC and protocol buffers


• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics


• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker), Caching (Redis), API gateway (KrakenD), orchestration (Kubernetes), distributed tracing (Jaeger), Service mesh (LinkerD), and observability


• Knowledge of microservices (or SOA), Docker, and/or distributed systems.


• Good working knowledge ofNoSQL systems (MongoDB, Elastic, Cassandra),


• Relational Database Systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle), Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ), Kafka


• Experience with managing and deploying applications on AWS/Digital Ocean/GCP.