Backend Software Engineer (Remote) at Prospa Technology Limited

Prospa is a financial operating system for Nigerian entrepreneurs. It takes just 5 minutes to open and members get a bank account number in their company name. With Prospa, business owners can make and receive transfers, send invoices, set up an e-commerce store and more. Using an intuitive and beautifully designed mobile and web application.

Our mission is to support Africans in building financial prosperity. As a company we are committed to building a culture of excellence, empathy and growth. We are backed by Y Combinator and some of the most well respected and prolific investors in the US, Africa and Europe.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Backend Software Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• We’re looking for a backend software engineer to join our team. Your primary responsibilities include architecting, implementing, releasing and supporting features that enable our collaborative product model.
• A commitment to collaborative problem solving and creating high-quality products is essential.

You’ll Be Expected to:

• Explore, define and develop new technologies and architecture.
• Re-evaluate existing technologies to constantly improve our platform.
• Improve upon and build new business-critical features and infrastructure.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features
• Design and develop software that will run across web and mobile apps
• Work with smart algorithm processes to scale software from thousands to millions of transactions
• Set up staging and sandbox environments to test software functionality and efficiency
• Build smart data collection techniques to better understand user behaviors and experience
• Tackle software bugs and technical troubleshooting
• Support customer-witnessed testing.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Critically look at the user problems and design process flows and improve them
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand member pain points and come up with solutions.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
• Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards.

Who We’re Looking For

• 5+ years developing software in a production environment at scale
• A deep understanding of Python
• Very good understanding of APIs and Django Rest framework
• Very good understanding of Celery, RabbitMQ, Memcached
• Very good understanding of Node.js, MySQL DB, PostgreSQL
• Very good understanding of socket programming
• Ability to 'mould' efficient queries to perform tasks on time
• Must have built awesome software before that had live active users
• Knowledge of technological trends.
• Working knowledge of Git
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research.
• Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale mobile applications
• An appreciation for maintainable and well-tested code.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Medical cover
• Wellness perks
• Paid time off (leave days)
• We invest in our employees through career development & opportunities.
• You get to collaborate with and learn from smart and creative people.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.