• Application Deadline:
• Position: Software Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


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


• Experience 3 years


• Location Nigeria


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

 Job Purpose/Mission 

• We are looking for a talented, self-starting software engineer to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets.


• This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact.


• Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the bi-weekly software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks, and key practical considerations (such as technical debt, feasibility at scale ….)


• Take requirements and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with minimal to no supervision.


• Develop complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs.


• Participate and contribute to   architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, assumptions, etc...


• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.


•  provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems, on-call)

 Experience and skills 

Required:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience


• Programming language proficiency in Python and mastery of at least one web frameworks (Django, Flask, fast API)


• Good knowledge of object relational mappers (and their implementation design patterns), No SQL, PostgreSQL, and storage options.


• Strong knowledge of design patterns and OOP practices, TDD


• Strong API development and documentation experience


• Experience using observability and monitoring tools.


• Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security


• Experience with git: GitHub/Gitlab based source code management and deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Desired:

• JavaScript and typescript proficiency with strong knowledge of one JS framework


• HTML4/5, CSS3, AJAX, Bootstrap along with strong knowledge of DOM.


• Strong software engineering and architectural patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)


• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in cloud context: elastic cache, distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, clustering.


• Good experience on high availability, observability, and structured logging


• API design to scale in Python (REST, GraphQL,Apollo...)


• Knowledge of container and container orchestration


• Web and application Server backend management is a strong advantage.


• Good knowledge of web application security with standards such as OWASP


• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)

Language(s): 

• English


• French is a plus.