Senior Elixir Developer at Bitt Incorporated

Bitt Inc. - Founded in 2014, Bitt is a small, multinational, fintech, startup providing blockchain-based digital currency solutions for Central Banks and other Financial Institutions. Our Mission is to create trustworthy digital currencies to promote financial empowerment, social inclusion and economic growth for nearly two billion unbanked people around the world. Bitt is an agile development shop, leveraging a variety of languages and a complete CI/CD pipeline to deliver a broad suite of mobile applications and cloud-deployed containerized software for our clients. We strongly believe in the principles of continuous improvement, collaboration and the best idea wins.  Primary languages include Kotlin, Swift, Go, Elixir, JavaScript and Python. In a world first achievement, Bitt designed, developed and is currently operating a Central Bank Digital Currency in partnership with the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank; learn more here.

With a workforce dispersed across several territories around the world, Bitt prides itself on cultivating a highly productive remote work environment and diverse work culture. Our Leadership team and Advisory Board are examples of the Bitt's ethos working at its best.

We are recruiting to fill the position below

Job Title: Senior Elixir Developer

Location: Abuja
Department: Software Development
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

• As a Sr. Backend Elixir Developer, you will work on globally diverse, cross-functional, Agile teams that experiment often and iterate quickly to deliver experiences that our customers will love.
• You will play an active role in identifying and resolving our coding standards and architectural direction.
• You will assist other developers through pair programming and mentoring opportunities to help individuals and the team grow.
• You will have a desire to learn and apply new skills and technology as part of your own personal growth and to help the growth of the team and the company.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience
• 1+ years of experience with Elixir + Phoenix
• Experience with modular software design and functional programming
• Experience working with message queues like Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS, PubSub
• Experience with Relational Database Design and Enterprise Data Architecture.

Preferred Job Requirements:

• Prior Mentorship experience
• Deep understanding of Elixir
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Polyglot programmer, Erlang/Java/Kotlin is a plus.

Skills:

• Ability to breakdown complex problems into smaller, easy to understand pieces
• Ability to work well independently and in an Agile team environment
• Backend development with an strong understanding of creating usable APIs
• Basic coding concepts (readable, clean, concise, reusable)
• Unit Test creation and implementation
• Debugging and bug fixes
• Version Control ( git ) and participation in a productive code review process.
• Functional programming.

Proficient in:

• Architecture and design principles
• Refactoring / re-architecture of legacy code
• Cross team and department collaboration
• Translating user stories and UX designs to workable solutions
• Informal leadership, training, and mentoring
• Understanding of OTP, concurrency, BEAM nodes, and clustering.

Familiar with:

• CI/CD Integration
• GraphQL
• Agile and Scrum principles and practices.

Application Closing Date
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