Back-End Developer at Softcom Limited

Softcom was established in 2007 with a mission to “connect people and businesses with meaningful innovation”. A technology company which aims to solve problems that will connect people and businesses to value that ultimately improves their lives. We want our products to enable inclusion and growth for people and businesses in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Back-End Developer

Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Description

As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the platform services.
You will help guide the technical decisions around building highly available and reliable services while working with the product and design teams to enable new features and capabilities for our customers.

Responsibilities
Your job responsibilities include the following;

Liaising with developers, designers and other stakeholders to identify and implement new features.
Maintaining our Nodejs/Golang systems
Using and developing internal tools and documentation.
Collaborating with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
Designing and developing modern APIs that integrate with server backends
Promoting engineering best practices and helping to define our technical roadmap for the team
Focusing on providing fault tolerant systems that enable rapid development without negatively impacting our customers.

Our Stack:

AWS – Cloud Infrastructure
Nodejs or Golang – Primary backend languages
MongoDB, Redis – Data persistence
RabbitMQ or Nats – Message broker
ReactJS – Frontend Javascript Framework
Bitbucket – Source code management
Sentry – Log management
Postman, cypress – Testing tools

Requirements

3+ years of experience with Javascript (NodeJs) and/or Golang languages
Experience in implementing, providing architectural feedback and delivery of complex software solutions
Experience and a desire to perform and grow as a technical leader and engineer
Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and provide technical guidance when needed
Demonstrated ability and desire to mentor other engineers
Experience with AWS and container solutions
Experience working in the payments industry
Experience or education in security or cryptography
Stay up to date with current best practices
Manage cutting edge tools and technologies to improve applications