Full Stack Engineer (Web) at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona is an award winning, high impact, financially sustainable and highly scalable social enterprise, part-owned by the farmers we serve. Babban Gona, was created to specifically attract youth to agriculture and away from the looming instability of extremist groups.

We accomplish this by franchising thousands of farmer cooperatives across Nigeria, dramatically increasing the profitability of the smallholder members 2.5 times above the national average. This dramatic increase in net income is accomplished by delivering an integrated holistic package of training, farm inputs and marketing services, on credit. Babban Gona has been able to deliver this credit while maintaining one of the highest repayment rates in the world, currently above 99%, leveraging our comprehensive 8 levels of risk mitigation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Full Stack Engineer (Web)

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Technology

Key Responsibilities

• You will work across different technology stacks and languages (mainly JavaScript (React.JS, Node.JS, TypeScript) and PHP (Slim framework).
• Supervise junior web developers, analyzing areas of weakness, and scheduling training sessions accordingly
• Participate in every stage of feature development from design and brainstorming through feature implementation, including fixing of critical bugs under a tight release deadline.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features for the website.
• Must be able to read, edit codes written by other developers to fix bugs and transform outdated code to its latest version.
• Work with other developers, business analysts, and product managers across the product teams to understand business and technical processes, gather requirements, and collaborate on the delivery of solutions.
• Drive change to implement efficient and effective strategies as advised by management.
• Ensure that all software developed within your team satisfies the business requirements as specified.
• Create and enforce processes that improve developer efficiency and productivity.
• Technical documentation - Document every aspect of application or system as a reference for future maintenance and upgrades.
• Provide clear and concise communication regarding feature development statuses to the team and stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications; conduct UI tests and optimize performance.
• Participate in the application lifecycle; develop sustainable web applications with clean codes.
• Provide training and support to other team members.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering or any other related field.
• Knowledge of Node.JS, React.JS, Express.JS TypeScript is required.
• Minimum of 3 years experience building web applications with technology stacks specified above.
• Experience working with google cloud platform/ google cloud services is a plus.
• Knowledge of database systems MySQL, PostgreSQL.
• Proven Work Experience as a Full Stack Web Developer

Other Requirements:

• Excellent problem-solving ability.
• Ability to communicate with clients, colleagues and management to explain complex issues clearly and concisely.
• Experience driving technical projects, prioritizing work, identifying dependencies, facilitating technical decisions and cross-functional team discussions.
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills
• Detail oriented, customer-centered, critical thinker and problem solver

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Work Location:

• Babban Gona currently operates a decentralized model with 10 offices spread across Nigeria.
• This role would be remote.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurancenus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.