Senior Integrations Engineer at TechAdvance Limited

TechAdvance is a payment application development company with a strategic focus in developing and deploying niche payment companies to serve the needs of large public and private sector organisations in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Integrations Engineer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Reporting Line: Team Lead, Integrations

Job Purpose

We seek a backend developer with proven experience in dealing with large scale systems. This is a role that entails the full development cycle of web services: from architecture/design to development, testing, debugging, deployment, documentation and maintenance/support, thereby creating an integration architecture that enables productivity, allows for rapid integration of internal and cloud solutions, and promotes a highly decoupled application ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Define the systems integration needs: from interface to technology needs, and the transitory steps needed to ensure continuity of the systems, data and business.
Define the integration and dataflow architectures and designing the APIs that can be a point of stability that endures as the platform technologies around them changes.
Create and manage a best-in-class and complete external-facing API layer for business-partner integration to support external thick- clients and third-party applications
Collaborate with the support-teams around production incidents involving integration to directly or indirectly ensure their timely resolution and recovery and preventive measures are taken to avoid recurrence.
Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to understand changes made to the software under test.
Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases and ensure traceability with software requirements.
Ensure and confirm that the solution/product requirement designs are fulfilled.
Collaborate with other teams in order to ensure software-system consistency.
Protect all IT Intellectual properties of the company.
Any other responsibility as assigned by the team lead/CTO.

Requirements

3+ years of software development experience with strong programming and engineering skills
Strong analytical/software architecture skills
Experience in designing, leading and implementing technology solutions
Ability to produce comprehensive technical/API documentations
Strong knowledge of security standards, practices and architecture
Willingness to operate and iterate quickly
Mastery of Python and the Flask web framework, as well as, extensive deployment experience with these technologies
Familiarity with any other Python web framework
Experience with SQLAlchemy and other Python libraries
Production experience with tools like Celery, Supervisor, Gunicorn/uWSGI, Redis/RabbitMQ, Nginx/Apache, HA-Proxy
Knowledge of HTML/CSS, Javascript and the Jinja2 templating engine
Good knowledge of SQL and familiarity with an RDBMS like PostgreSQL or MySQL
Experience with software version control (Git, Mercury, SVN…)
Proficiency with the Linux OS
Familiarity with JSON, XML, Regular expressions
Experience with web services and integrations alongside an understanding of the concepts of REST and SOAP API architectures
Experience with cloud platforms/technologies (AWS, DigitalOcean, Google App Engine…)
A good understanding of software design patterns
A good background in data structures and algorithms
Some understanding of concepts such as asynchronous, concurrent and distributed programming.