Senior Software Engineer at Groove Nigeria

Groove is the leading sales engagement platform for enterprises using Salesforce. Built for relationship-based sellers, Groove increases rep productivity, drives Salesforce adoption, and delivers revenue intelligence. Over 70,000 people use Groove at companies including Google, BBVA, Atlassian, Uber, and Capital One.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time (Contract)
Category: Engineering

About the Role

We’re looking for awesome, well-rounded engineers who want to take on big challenges, collaborate closely with others, grow a lot, and help shape the future of the company.
You will have a direct influence on product and technology decisions and help define our culture as we change how companies and teams sell.
Our engineering organization is split into product-based squads.
You’ll be joining one of these squads and working most closely with each engineer and product manager within the squad.

Requirements

You value writing tests, pairing, and making an impact on end-users
You enjoy white-boarding data models and workflows with others
You’ve built and supported things that operate in production and at scale
You seek the best solution given real-life constraints – not the best academic answer.
You communicate well
You take initiative and ownership by identifying issues and fixing them or communicating them with the team without being asked
You’re intellectually curious
You’re passionate about building technology to help the workflows of a historically neglected user-base
Demonstrated self-motivation and a personal track record of lifelong learning

Requirements – Technology Skills:

Excellent engineering skills, preferable in two of the following languages: JavaScript, Java/J2EE, Python, and/or Ruby on Rails
Excellent OR mapping and RDBMS engineering skills on MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer, and/or Oracle to include high proficiency with SQL, DDL, stored procedures, and schema design
Excellent UI development skills using JavaScript and ReactJS/Redux
Fluency in web services / API standards, technologies and tools (e.g. XML, SOAP/REST, GraphQL, etc.), experienced in architecting enterprise-class web services and API
Must possess theoretical and proven practical mastery of programming and design patterns, beyond the normal MVC, etc.
Familiar with Salesforce platform / APEX development
Familiar with Chrome Extension development

Experience:

4+ years of professional software development experience with heavy use of at all important equivalent web application frameworks, such as Java/J2EE, Python, or C#/.Net or Ruby on Rails
2+ years of professional performance engineering experience with large scale application performance tuning and benchmarking of millions of daily transactions and terabyte databases
Experience in managing complex projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies
2+ years of professional web application development experience that required heavy use of related commercial or open-source web application frameworks
2+ years of professional RDBMS development experience that leveraged complex SQL, DML, DDL, and well-designed schemas. Directly PostgreSQL experience is a plus
Experience with NoSQL data management and analysis technologies such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Pig, Hive, Redis, MemcacheD, Redshift, etc. is a plus
Salesforce Development experience (Apex, LWC, Visualforce, SOQL) is a plus
Chrome Extensions Development experience is a plus.

Benefits and Perks

Stock options
401k match
Flexible PTO
Medical/dental/vision insurance, with employee premiums covered at 99%!
Company-paid life insurance
Remote office set up options and locations in San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle
10 Paid holidays
Professional development stipend
Company-wide team-building retreats & virtual events
Fun, collaborative, and balanced culture.