Senior Backend Engineer at Duplo

Duplo is building the platform to power the next generation of financial services. Our mission is to help companies expand financial access for all. Our simple and powerful banking-as-a-service API helps companies quickly launch financial products.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description
Essential Duties:

• Work closely with engineering leads to aiding with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure. 
• Help develop and own release versioning control and related documentation
• Design and implement testing and quality validation strategies.
• Building Restful APIs, SDKs, backend features, micro-services  and infrastructure.

Qualifications
Required:

• 5 + years of software or web app development experience.
• 3 + more years of direct backend development experience.
• Expert knowledge of JavaScript and at least one other programming language, preferably Java, PHP, Golang or Python.
• Strong knowledge of NodeJs and  Fastify, Express framework.
• You have strong experience creating and automating E2E tests .
• You have a depth of experience developing, maintaining, and securing micro-services (preferably on AWS or Google cloud).
• You have a reasonable understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Reasonable experience monitoring or tracking performance with services such as New Relic.
• Strong working knowledge of Relational database and  NoSQL DB (Firestore, Mongo DB).
• Reasonable experience, or eagerness to learn, security and vulnerability testing and remediation best practices (Basic OWASP top 10, Topp CWE 25).
• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodologies (Jira).
• Strong understanding of software development and design patterns.
• Strong understanding of AWS Infrastructure.
• Familiar with monitoring and testing tools.

Desired:

• CI/CD using Circleci.
• Experience with typescript and framework like Nest JS.
• Architecture and Technical Design experience.
• Good working knowledge of Prisma ORM.
• Experience with deploying code multiple times a day.
• SQL / Database Queries.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.