Backend Engineer at Mollo Technology Full Time

Mollo Technology is currently seeking for application from qualified applicants to fill the vacant position of Senior Backend Engineer. interested and qualified applicants can apply via the details below

Mollo Technology – We send and receive payments, pay bills, virtual card and remit funds in and around Africa with the Mollo app.

We are seeking a skilled, reliable, efficient employee to join our growing organization in the capacity below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos

Description

• You’ll be working as part of a cross-disciplinary group that prioritizes user needs, challenges assumptions, and iterates quickly, using data and running experiments to develop secure, robust, and scalable solutions.

How Will You Make Impact?

• You will be a part of our backend team responsible for managing the interchange of data between our servers and users.
• As you know, backend engineering primarily focuses on the development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Your Responsibilities
Your Responsibilities will include:

• Define and deliver resilient software that meets and exceeds the expectations of your team, managers, and product stakeholders.
• Develop readable, testable, and maintainable code to spec.
• Commitment to continued technical and professional growth.
• Interfacing with stakeholders to understand their business, goals, and visions for products supported by the product organisation.
• Lending your knowledge and positive approach to overall team development.
• Frameworks, and technologies we use include but are not limited to
• NodeJs + TypeScript
• Kubernetes + Helm
• Redis
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• MongoDB
• Github + CircleCI
• Loki + Grafana

Requirements
As the ideal candidate for this role you have:

• At least 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for web applications
• Are proficient in writing code in Javascript or TypeScript, go, and enjoy learning new languages.
• Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases like Postgres or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with key-value databases like Redis or memcached.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests.
• Good knowledge of Docker, container orchestration and microservices architecture
• Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications
• Exposure to Agile methodologies.
• Experience working remotely as an effective member of a team.
• Fun collaborating, problem-solving, and being part of a team environment.
• A vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written).
• The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and limited supervision.
• The ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.

You Should Apply if:

• You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
• You deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
• You’re interested in building distributed systems and tackling the fun challenges and complexity that comes with that.
• You understand the importance of prioritization in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
• You’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
• You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.

Benefits
Why join Mollo?:
Become a part of one of the trailblazers in the challenger banking arena by joining the exciting and ambitious team at Mollo Finance as we work to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’.

• An exciting and flexible work environment
• Competitive pay
• Smart and kind coworkers
• Full pension contribution
• Reliable health insurance

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.