Senior Backend Engineer at Duplo Full Time

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description
Essential Duties:

• Work closely with engineering leads to aiding with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure.
• Help develop and own release versioning control and related documentation
• Design and implement testing and quality validation strategies.
• Building Restful APIs, SDKs, backend features, micro-services  and infrastructure.

Qualifications
Required:

• 5 + years of software or web app development experience.
• 3 + more years of direct backend development experience.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript and at least one other programming language, preferably Java, PHP, Golang or Python.
• Strong knowledge of NodeJs and  Fastify, Express framework.
• You have strong experience creating and automating E2E tests .
• You have a depth of experience developing, maintaining, and securing micro-services (preferably on AWS or Google cloud).
• You have a reasonable understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Reasonable experience monitoring or tracking performance with services such as New Relic.
• Strong working knowledge of Relational database and  NoSQL DB (Firestore, Mongo DB).
• Reasonable experience, or eagerness to learn, security and vulnerability testing and remediation best practices (Basic OWASP top 10, Topp CWE 25).
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies (Jira).
• Strong understanding of software development and design patterns.
• Strong understanding of AWS Infrastructure.
• Familiar with monitoring and testing tools.

Desired:

• CI/CD using Circleci.
• Experience with typescript and framework like Nest JS.
• Architecture and Technical Design experience.
• Good working knowledge of Prisma ORM.
• Experience with deploying code multiple times a day.
• SQL / Database Queries.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.