Backend Engineer (Artillery) – HackToBank at Sterling Bank Plc

Sterling Bank Plc “Your one-customer bank” is a full service national commercial bank in Nigeria. In over 50 years of operations, Sterling Bank (formerly NAL Bank) has evolved from the nation’s pre-eminent investment banking institution to a fully-fledged commercial bank; and completed a merger with 4 other banks – Indo-Nigeria Merchant Bank, Magnum Trust Bank, NBM Bank and Trust Bank of Africa – as part of the 2006 consolidation of the Nigerian banking industry.

We are recruiting for CodeBattle! From Coder’s Island to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer (Artillery)

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full Time

Find your Tribe

Are you a talented, creative problem-solver interested in building the bank of the future?
Join us if you’re interested in building products used by our customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
On our team, everyone is welcome. We are all champions of impact and the culmination of our values means that every day at work, we try to create meaningful interactions.

Code to Bank
Welcome to Coders’ Island Mission:

Good day,
General Stallion has stolen some secret files from the CodeBank, he now commands a secret force of allies hidden deep in the forest of Hacker’s Island.
Your ultimate task is to recover the secret files hidden at Coder’s Island in a CodeBattle.

What is the mission about?

Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
Implement security and data protection
Design and implement data storage solutions
Conduct UI tests and optimize performance
Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and system administrators
Follow new and emerging technologies

What do you need?

In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
Experience using C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core and MVC
Experience using Golang
Experience using NodeJs
Knowledge of Entity Framework 6 and ADO.NET
Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
Proficient knowledge and experience in creating, integrating, and managing databases using MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and/or MongoDB.
Understanding accessibility and security compliance including the OWASP security principles
Management of hosting environment and scaling an application to support load changes
API Integration
Data migration, transformation, and scripting
Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Ability to develop and design effective security and hack prevention settings