Software Engineer (Full Stack) at First Excelsia Professional Services Limited

First Excelsia Professional Services Limited – Our client, an innovative research and development company with trendsetting products in the education and health sector, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Industry: Tech

Job Summary

Full Stack Engineer to grow the business in line with the company’s overall strategy of driving more customers and more user cases backed with a superlative learning experience.
The primary activities of the role will entail working on both the back-end and front-end of systems to develop fully-fledged platforms (with databases, servers and clients) which don’t need other applications to function.
The ideal role holder should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries, should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility and also familiar with Agile methodologies. For this role, 80% focus would be on the front end.

Job Description

Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
Design client-side(focus) and server-side architecture
Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.
Create security and data protection settings.
Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
Write technical documentation.
Work with data scientists and analysts to improve the software.
Use a variety of programming languages in order to create user-friendly web pages
Maintain and improve the company website and all existing projects and products.
Work in a multidisciplinary team with other professionals such as back-end developers, data engineers and web designers
Optimize web applications for maximum speed
Design mobile-based features
Make the platform look and work a little bit better every day.
Implement designs and work together with our UX designer.
Taking lead on projects, as needed.
Coach teammates and provide them with constructive feedback.
Actively spot and report issues and work on fixing and refactoring code where needed.
Come up with new functionalities, tools, technologies and actually build them.
Improve legacy code as well as write new functionalities from scratch.
Respond to the PR review requests of colleagues.
Eager to learn new tools & languages and share knowledge with the team.

Person Specification

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Programming, Computer Science or a related field.
Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
Great experience with JavaScript stack.
Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g., HTML/ CSS, JavaScript)
Knowledge of multiple JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, Node.js)
Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL), web servers (e.g., Apache).
Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
Ability to work independently or with a group.
Solid engineering capability with an eye towards performance
Experience with Google Cloud or AWS is a plus
Experience with micro-services or highly scalable infrastructure is highly preferred.
Ability to write code that is clean, properly architected, maintainable, and scalable.