• Application Deadline: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Senior Backend Developer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 3 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Job Description

• The senior software engineer will be actively involved in the design, development, configuration, maintenance, testing and deployment of software for the Concept Group, its companies and their clients.


• The engineer is expected to lead intermediate and junior developers.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate actively in requirements gathering and analysis


• Work with business analyst to determine the best part of solutions to be implemented


• Actively participate in requirement gathering process


• Collaborate with the relevant teams and departments to produce software design and architecture


• Write clean, readable and testable code that is scalable and well documented


• Review code from junior and intermediate developers.


• Maintain, update, refactor and debug new and existing codes


• Test and deploy applications and systems


• Serve as an expert within your area of competence


• Provide technical support when necessary


• Keep up to date with the terminology, concepts and best practices for coding


• Develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends


• Record and report data to the appropriate parties, such as clients, leadership or management


• Commit to continuous improvement, education and training to remain current on best practices, new programming languages, and to better assist other team members


• Take lead on projects when necessary.


• Mentor new developers.


• Appraise the performance of junior and intermediate developers.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related fields


• 3+ years of hands-on experience in backend software development using PHP and MySQL or any other backend languages


• 2+ years experience working with Laravel and/or Lumen or Express or Django and/or Django Rest Framwork


• Experience in NodeJS, ReactJS and MongoDB would be a plus.

Job Knowledge:

• How to setup a local development environment


• Project deployment via FTP or git


• Relational database structure and design


• Clean, readable, testable and scalable codes


• Familiarity with agile using scrum


• Understanding of design patterns


• Create and consume RESTful APIs

Skills / Competencies:

• Working knowledge of PHP, Laravel/Lumen, Javascript, Node.js, MySQL and MongoDB


• Working understanding of frontend web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and VanillaJS


• Proficient knowledge of version control & SSH


• Deep technical understanding of RESTful API’s


• Working experience with cloud hosting platforms


• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming