Back End Developer at Value Edge Management Services

Value Edge Management Services Limited - We are a leading business management consulting practice serving clients across Africa. We work in all major sectors of the economy and levels of government engaging highly trained and sector-experienced consultants.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Back End Developer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Summary

• The Back End Developer will responsible for designing and implementing high-quality software in line with established policies and technology stack.

Responsibilities
This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Maintaining documentation, ensuring that the knowledge acquired is available across the organization and built into the squads as a discipline
• Supporting the architecture function in designing performant and resilient products
• Develop performant, efficient and reliable applications
• Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor complex software.
• Participate in estimation and planning work with an adaptive (iterative/agile) approach.
• Staying up to date with the latest tech innovations and evaluating their value
• Developing fast, scalable, reliable, and efficient apps
• Making sure engineering policies and selected tools are adhered to
• Making sure agreed test coverage is implemented and daily progress communicated
• Keeping code repositories and Version Control up to date.

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Agile certifications are desirable.

Knowledge & Experience:

• 3+ years experience building commercial applications in Node.js
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Knowledge of Node.js frameworks (e.g. Express)
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Experience with AWS services like Lambda is desirable
• Experience working with an agile framework (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience using DevOps principles and automation practices
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• RDBMS experience
• Commercial Experience of developing distributed systems using a messaging-based architecture (ideally RabbitMQ or SQS).

Technical & People Skills:

• Node.js 10+
• ASP.NETin vb.NET WCF language
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript/JQuery
• Good knowledge of XML, JSON
• Good knowledge of Web services .net knowledge
• Good Knowledge of Team Foundation Server (client side)
• Agile, Scrum, BDD, TDD, Pull Request, CI/CD
• Good working knowledge of unit testing & integration testing frameworks
• Excellent communication skills (oral/written)
• Collaborative and keen to share knowledge with others.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.