Node Js Developer at CredPal

CredPal is a financial technology company that provides credit cards for consumers to meet their immediate financial needs. We are leveraging technology and the retail industry to provide a modern consumer credit solution for Africa and beyond.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Node Js Developer

Location: Yaba, Lagos

Purpose Statement

• We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front end.
• You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Key Deliverables

• Integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high availability, and performance applications.
• Implementation of security and data protection.
• Identify and implement data storage solutions, and integration of data storage solutions.
• Develop and manage server-side components
• Design and deploy high-performance applications.
• Integrate server-side logic to the user-facing components built by front-end developers
• Incorporate data protection and cybersecurity measures
• Ensure that the main database and front-end requests are at their optimal performance
• Perform diagnostic tests, fix bugs, and provide technical support to users
• Document software development processes and prepare project reports
• Provide suggestions for improvement and apply them to daily tasks and processes

Preferred Qualification

• University Degree or equivalent educational experience (optimally a technical or engineering degree).
• At least 4-6+ years (//edit according to your requirements) of experience with JavaScript and Node.js
• Familiarity and experience building fintech applications.

Preferred Requirements:

• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, Nestjs and web stacks, libraries, and other frameworks.
• Hands-on expertise in REST, MySQL/PostgreSQL, WebSocket, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
• Familiarity with Docker and AWS infrastructure.
• Understanding of data security principles.
• Great understanding of programming principles like SOLID, KISS, DRY, YAGNI, SoC etc.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude skills.
• Experience optimizing and tuning code for performance and maintainability – includes utilizing asynchronous programming, offline storage, and multi-threading as well as working around system / language limitations to achieve desired performance benchmarks.
• Working knowledge of front-end technologies, such as HTML5 and CSS3, TailwindCSS, SASS/SCSS.
• Experience with back-end data management that optimizes RESTful APIs / microservices performance for varied user platforms – desktop, mobile (iOS), web services, and more
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages.
• Experience in the integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.