Mid / Senior Fullstack Engineer (Remote) at Lori Nigeria

Lori is a venture-backed, rapidly growing start-up that has built a cutting-edge, tech-driven, logistics services platform that seamlessly coordinates haulage across frontier markets. With a mission to reduce the cost of goods in frontier markets, Lori is tackling a massive issue; $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, and up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).

Lori was recognized as the fastest growing start-up in Africa and won Techcrunch’s Battlefield Africa. Our tech-enabled and operations-driven marketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The system brings transparency to the logistics industry and has significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (upwards of 20%). Billions of dollars of cargo move through the Lori platform annually. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mid / Senior Fullstack Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: Mid Level

About the Role

• We are seeking a Mid or Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join it’s diverse technical team.
• You’ll have the flexibility to work remotely and the opportunity to shape products that are currently used across East and West Africa, and soon beyond.
• If you’re passionate about actively contributing to a best-in-class team and inspired by big challenges, this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for! 

Responsibilities
What You Will Do:

• Develop scalable software systems (for front-end & back-end). 
• Deploy software updates to marketplaces (e.g., AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace).
• Perform QA and peer review on existing infrastructure & related processes against the company’s software development standards.
• Support automation around the IT infrastructure and in alignment with company processes and regulatory frameworks such as GDPR (e.g., implement scripts to create, teardown, migrate & recreate environments).
• Perform technical design reviews of software and IT infrastructure, develop proof-of-concept solutions in the R&D service and deploy to production service.
• Manage the lifecycle of multiple cloud environments with extensions to on-premise high-performance computing facilities that run AI/ML processes (e.g., implement health monitoring and alerting).
• Provide environment support and training to delivery teams to maximize efficiency and advocate DevOps principles and coach product teams, which will extend to AI/MLOps.

Requirements
What It Takes:

• 5+ years of commercial experience in full software development lifecycle.
• 2+ years working with AWS and/or Azure (using IAM/AAD, keyvault, S3/blob storage, lambdas/azure functions, web apps, queues, database, and managed services/products – e.g., DynamoDB/CosmosDB).
• 2+ years in agile methodologies (ideally via JIRA) and working with serverless architectures and event-driven architectures.
• 2+ years developing microservices, API-driven cloud-based products including performance management.
• Strong background scripting with typescript/JavaScript, python & using web frameworks (e.g., react, node, flask, etc.).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines on git-based commercial source control or similar (e.g., GitHub including Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.).
• Knowledge of infrastructure as a code with cloud formation/ARM templates, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Experience using Linux Server Administration including container technology & ecosystem (Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus) linked to AAD.

Added Advantage:

• Experience with integrating African-powered fintech or logistics platforms or similarly regulated verticals and environments.
• Knowledge in Dashboards (ideally via Grafana or Power BI).
• Exposure to networking, telecommunications, and OSI model.
• Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Keras, etc.).
• Working knowledge of ISO 27000, ITIL, or similarly regulated environments.
• Expertise in CRM & ERP systems (e.g., Salesforce, SAP, MS Dynamics).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.