• Application Deadline:
• Position: Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails)


• Job Type Remote


• Qualification


• Experience 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

What you’ll do:

• Design, test, and ship great backend code every week to build impactful new features for users and internal operational teams


• Influence, and at times lead, the design and architecture of backend features


• Upskill engineers with junior level back-end experience through active mentoring, code reviews and internal backend forums


• Work with a wide range of systems, stakeholders, processes and technologies to solve engineering problems


• Uphold our engineering standards and processes


• Debug production issues across services, and help ensure a stable application for the marketplace


• Document feature designs and architectural decisions


• Contribute to the technical and product roadmap

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you:

• Minimum of 5 years experience in software development for our senior role and 3 years for our intermediate role


• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with Ruby on Rails in a production environment


• Excellent at solving problems


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• Able to clearly articulate solutions for a technical and non-technical audience


• Good architectural design ability - understand patterns, algorithm complexity, responsibility separation, component-oriented design, data modelling


• Experience writing tests to cover all permutations of added functionality


• Creating documentation for feature designs or architectural choices so that new engineers can quickly start contributing effectively


• Experience with databases


• Experience with non-relational databases (specifically MongoDB) is a bonus


• Room in your closet for numerous free t-shirts