Backend Engineer (Remote) at Busha Digital Limited

Busha was established in 2018 as a digital currency exchange platform where consumers and merchants can trade digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Busha has made efforts to be a trusted company in this domain and ensure that our platform is easy to use, accessible and user-friendly. Our focus is to use innovation and efficiency to build an open financial system. There are a few things we look for across all hires we make at Busha, regardless of role or team. We assess whether a candidate demonstrates our values: Clear Communication, Positive Energy, Efficient Execution, and Continuous Learning.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time

Overview

• We are looking for a Backend Engineer with a passion finding solutions that allow customers to intuitively use our products.
• You will work with other designers and cross-functional team members and will rely heavily on both qualitative and quantitative data to make informed decisions.
• Your duties may also include training new employees and maintaining open communication with other departments during the design process.

Responsibilities

• Integration of user facing elements developed by front end developers with serve side logic.
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle.
• Build high quality reusable code libraries for future implementation.
• Implementing security structures and its best practices
• Conceptualizing and implementing data storage solutions
• Maintain server stability with zero downtime.
• Configuring the backend usability for all frontend applications
• Improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews.
• Work with product and design teams to understand end user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.
• Writing clean scalable and efficient codes
• Troubleshooting and debugging to optimise performance.
• Routinely inspect server code for speed optimization
• Attend regular meetings with the frontend team to expose weakness and problems.
• Stay up to date with current best practices.
• Provide code documentation and other inputs to technical documents.

Requirements
The ideal candidate must have:

• A minimum of 3 years relevant experience
• Proven work experience as a backend developer
• Experienced with software engineering best practices
• In-depth understanding of data structures and other computer science fundamentals
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages such as Java, PHP, or Python, Ruby, JavaScript, .Net and Database/Operating systems.
• Working knowledge of CMS Framework
• Understanding of accessibility and server compliance
• Solid OPP and software design knowledge
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle, programming techniques and tools.

Nice to haves:

• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• A demonstrated passion for the Busha mission
• The ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong problem solving, verbal, written and communication skills
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision while achieving benchmarks
• A team player with excellent communication skills
• Experience working in Crypto.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online