Senior Backend Engineer at Kudi Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
About the Position:

• Architect, design and develop mobile products.
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements to existing mobile services.
• Manage Junior Engineers, providing mentoring, code reviews, architectural design etc.
• Perform performance review on direct reports and report details to line manager.
• Take full responsibility for products while they are in development and issues that arise when they are in use.
• You will work across different technology stacks and languages (mainly with a focus on Java and NodeJS);
• You will have an end to end responsibility of many services from design to deployment;
• You will join a fast-paced team of engineers
• You will be a point of call for technical matters.

Requirements
About You:

• Excellent programming skills
• At least 5 years experience developing in Java (Springboot or Dropwizard frameworks) & NodeJS in the industry
• At least 5 years experience developing with MongoDB or MySQL
• Strong affinity for technical design, testing and system architecture
• Experience working with containers
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong System Architecture Design skills
• Knowledge of fundamental computing topics, e.g. networking, databases, concurrency, parallelism, locking, algorithms, data structures, performance monitoring, optimisation, etc
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practises, e.g DDD, TDD
• Ability to work autonomously and lead technically
• Ability to take initiative and get stuff done
• Great communication skills.

Skills:
Nice to have:

• Knowledge of  Rust or Python
• Experience working in financial services
• Excellent communication skills verbal & oral
• Approachable easily approachable for others to discuss challenges with you.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Performance Bonuses
• Health Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.