Backend Engineer at GUS Consulting Limited

GUS Consulting Limited is one of the top Human Capital Development service providers in Nigeria. Our services cut across all sectors and industries. Over the years, we have proven to be one of the best hands in the industry. For us, good is not good enough! We aim to be the best at what we do - providing clients with complete and bespoke solutions, built on a sound understanding of the clients’ business needs. We have over 8 years of extensive experience providing top-notch HR services to companies in the oil and gas, maritime and Energy industries in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
As a Backend Engineer, a typical day might include the following:

• Work through the full life-cycle management, including requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing and documentation.
• Create technical test specifications and schedule estimates for new products.
• Contribute to the development of both internal and partner software integration projects, as well as new web and mobile applications.
• Maintain and extend existing codebase and libraries.
• Communicate complex ideas with ease, both in person and in writing.
• Provide escalated ticket/incident management for supported applications as well as will participate in defect management, issue tracking/trending.
• Taking leadership in owning issue resolution and driving them to completion.
• Ensuring that incident and problem management processes and procedures are followed and adhered to standards.
• Communicating to end-users, engineers, and operations.
• Provide performance /capacity metrics and ad hoc reporting of the same.
• Provide technical expertise and share knowledge with the team as required.
• Monitor the application performance and provide technical support as required.

Requirements
You’d be a good fit if you have:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or Electronic, Telecommunications and any Physical Science.
• 1-3 years working experience in all aspects of web and mobile application development, management and VAS.
• Mastery of at least 3 web technologies and proficiency in several others e.g. CSS, Golang, HTML, JavaScript, NodeJS, PHP, Python.
• Experience in building scalable real-time systems with
• Experience in building distributed systems
• Ex Deep understanding of server-side technologies, web security, cross-browser compatibility challenges, mobile development anatomy, SMS based stuff.
• Great energy and enthusiasm with a positive, collaborative working style.
• Working knowledge of relational database design and management.
• Practical experience in writing test scripts for API testing and/or QA automation tools.
• The ability to use the following technologies: Python, JavaScript (ES6), Golang, MongoDB, Node.js, HTML5, Elasticsearch, Linux (Command line knowledge such as BASH, ZSH, or FISH), Basic Understanding of Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP, Azure), Docker, Serverless Technologies.

Application Closing Date
4th April, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should forward their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.