Experienced Backend Engineer (Remote) at Monthly NG

Monthly.ng is a product of Instalment solutions Limited, an African financial engineering company. It is a rental finance product that allows anyone to rent any property, anywhere in Lagos and pay monthly. No collateral, no guarantors, no harassment. Yet still super affordable. It embodies what we are all about; innovation, convenience and helping people live better faster.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Experienced Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product and engineering team to design and build pragmatic, high quality and reliable APIs and services
• Write clean code, document existing code and refactor previously written code
• Document APIs, Architecture and designs (RFCs) in a clear and concise way
• Communicate effectively and proactively with the team and external stakeholders (third party APIs and integrations)
• Demonstrate the “you build it, you run it” mindset, own solutions end2end from design to deployment and support
• Debug, troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely fashion
• Setup monitoring dashboards, alerts and runbooks to ensure high availability

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a Backend engineer, building, deploying and maintaining production services
• Solid backend experience working with PHP 8+, MySQL, AWS technologies
• Familiar with application performance monitoring and observability
• Prior experience building low latency APIs or reactive systems
• Practical experience with software engineering concepts such REST, SOLID principles, Design Patterns, and 12 factor application methodology
• Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerisation

Our Stack

• Backend: PHP, Symfony 5, MySQL, AWS Cognito, S3, SNS, Lambda and Cloudwatch, REST, Deployment on AWS ECS
• DevOps: Github Actions, Terraform, Docker
• Monitoring: Newrelic, StatusCake
• Version Control: Git, Github.

Application Closing Date
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Method of Application
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