Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Konga Nigeria

Konga Nigeria - We are Nigeria’s largest online mall and have been in operation for over 6 years. Some of our major feats are winning Great Place to work awards two years in a row, winning an award for The Place Most Millennials would like to work and according to Forbes in 2015, 2nd Most Innovative Company in Africa. Our culture and values in a nutshell speak to placing our customers as priority, working hard, being passionate about what we do (and having fun in the process!) and teamwork. Our Company is full of ordinary people with extraordinary minds who desire to do extraordinary things!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Location: Lagos

Job Profile

• We are searching for a talented, smart, and experienced SOFTWARE ENGINEER to join our effervescent team based in the Lagos Head office. The successful applicant will be responsible for building, improving and maintaining our highly complex and large platform servicing thousands of customers every day.

Job Requirements

• 4 years+ writing scalable web applications for thousands of users.
• Good knowledge of UNIX OS.
• Hands-on experience with Scala, NodeJS, PHP is an added advantage.
• Must have worked in a consumer focused environment that provides solutions that serves thousands of end users.
• Good understanding of service oriented architecture and distributed systems.
• Kubernetes and GCP knowledge is also required.

Added Advantage
Experience in any of the following:

• Redis
• Algolia
• Analytics
• NGINX
• Apache
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool -Git

Application Closing Date
24th September, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@konga.com with the subject matter captured as “Senior Backend Engineer”

Note: It is noteworthy to mention that only candidates who fit the description will be shortlisted.