Full Stack Developer at PayQart Solutions Limited

PayQart is afinancial technology company offering payment solutions to merchants and both online and offline stores.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Details

Payqart, a financial technology company is seeking a Full Stack Developer to help us build a cutting edge savings and lending platform. You must be willing and able to learn everything about our products and end user needs as well as deliver against the product paper/brief through go live.
Candidate should have experience in or at least willingness to learn more about financial services/fintech. The Full Stack Developer will work closely with our Product Manager, business leads and user community to ensure that all client-facing functions and features on both our website and mobile apps are intuitive, fast, efficient and fully meet our clients trading and security needs. Our platform will run 24×7, so we need a developer who is expert at managing changes and updates real-time with little room for any downtime or failover.
We are looking for developers who are passionate about emerging businessâ€‹ and technology models as well as working in a space full of unknowns. This is an excellent opportunity for any developer seeking to explore new ideas with the team. We need developers who are enthusiastic and rigorous when tackling new problems, extremely versatile, who thrive in an agile, test-driven development and automated testing environment.

Responsibilities

Partner with product management, marketing and the rest of product development team to understand product vision, user needs, brand design aesthetics and back-end infrastructure
Translate complex business needs into innovative technical solutions and contribute to product advancement to guarantee solutions are designed for successful deployment
Develop high quality prototypes, proofs of concept in addition to productionâ€quality solutions
Create user-friendly, intuitive, fast-paced, real-time web pages and mobile apps
Design web and mobile-based features that ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
Interpret graphic visual or interaction designs in CSS and Javascript
Ensure efficient performance and scalability of solutions – optimize applications for maximum speed
Participate in team/project activities: requirement refinement, sprint planning, task estimations, coding, troubleshooting, retrospectives, etc.
Maintain and continuously improve website and mobile applications by getting feedback from and developing solutions for our clients
Must be willing to work full time in an office environment.

Experience/Qualifications

Interested candidates should possess a degree with 2 years work experience.
Mastery of the core features of at least one backend language : Python, JavaScript / Node, PHP, Ruby
Demonstrated experience of having taken large-scale initiatives from conception through to production, while continuing to support, optimize, and iterate
Advanced understanding of at least one Web Framework for your language of choice: i.e Flask / Django for Python; Node / Express for JavaScript, Rails for Ruby, Lumen / Laravel for PHP.
Deep knowledge of the fundamental front-end languages / technologies i.e HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Deep knowledge of at least one front-end framework React, Angular, Vue as well as experience with responsive design interface development
Extensive experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
Working knowledge of at least one complementary front-end languages / frameworks (ex: React, Angular, Vue )
Intermediate understanding of at least one Web Framework for your language of choice : Flask / Django for Python; Node / Express for JavaScript, Rails for Ruby, Lumen / Laravel for PHP.
Deep understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database, ORMs / ODMs and Web storage API (front end)
Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
Strength with at least one web server technology (ex : Apache, Nginx)
Strength working within at least one cloud hosting platform (ex: AWS, GCP)
Confident working with tools and editors (ex : Grunt, Sublime, Atom, JSLint)
Measured experience with unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, with at least one relevant testing framework
Expert leveraging software-development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, (such as agile) to drive positive personal / team outcomes to increase velocity and on-time delivery.