Konga Nigeria is recruiting candidates for a Senior Back-end Engineer.
JOB TITLE: Senior Back-end Engineer
JOB LOCATION: Lagos, Nigeria
Type: Full Time
Job Category: Mid Officer Level
Reports to: Head, Technology
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JOB DETAILS:
We are searching for a talented and smart individual with a passion for the Ecommerce and Logistics space to function in the capacity of a Senior Backend Engineer.
Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for:
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Design and implementation of data storage solutions
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Troubleshoot and debug applications
- Perform UI tests to optimize performance
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
- Gather and address technical and design requirements
- Provide training and support to internal teams
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
- Follow emerging technologies
Professional Skills & Qualifications Required
- BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field
- Proven work experience as a Back-end developer
- In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
- Hands on experience with programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP and Python
- Working knowledge of CMS framework
- Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)
- Excellent analytical and time management skills
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors such as LESS and SASS
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance {{Depending on a specific project}}
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
- Data migration, transformation, and scripting
- Setup and administration of backups
- Outputting data in different formats
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT
- Proficient understanding of OWASP security principles
- Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
Why Work with Konga?
- A unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced, structured and technologically driven environment
- The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team growing the ecommerce space in Nigeria
- An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our fast-growing businesses.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (in Word Document and/or Pdf formats) to: [email protected] using “Senior Backend Engineer” as the subject of the email.
Deadline: August 10, 2020
Job Features
Job Category | Software/ Programming / Web development |
Deadline | 10th August, 2020. |