Backend Developer at Salvo International Agency

Salvo International Agency is a full-service digital marketing consulting firm. Our mission is to help businesses of all sizes achieve their goals through effective, results-driven digital marketing strategies. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver tangible results for our clients, and we’re passionate about staying at the forefront of industry trends and best practices.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Developer

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description

• As a member of the engineering department, you will be responsible for responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Your primary focus will be 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, as well as being committed to producing quality code, raising the bar for the whole team on quality and speed.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend APIs and services for our software product. These APIs will need to be available and perform under heavy traffic.
• You are expected not only to own your code, but also the infrastructure automation that enables your code to be deployed, and upgraded successfully across multiple environments, with zero downtime.
• You will work with other engineers on the team and ensure code quality is maintained throughout the building phase of the project.
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
• Participate in efforts to share expertise within the company; mentor junior and aspiring engineers.
• Taking the lead on projects, as required. Develop technical and business requirements and always strive to deliver
• Actively maintain awareness and education of the latest trends, techniques, and tools related to post-production
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Perform UI tests to optimize performance
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Gather and address technical and design requirements
• Provide training and support to internal teams
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features
• Follow emerging technologies.

Requirements & Qualifications

• 4+ years of proven experience in building minimum of 2 scalable software systems in edtech/fintech industry (databases, middleware, and APIs) scaling to at least thousands/100’s of thousands of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
• Solid backend experience; ideally .NET(C#)
• Experience using hosting services in cloud – AWS/Azure/GCP
• Great sense of API design and data modeling (in relational databases like MySQL/Postgres).
• Able to design and develop secure API for 3rd party integration.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes+
• Experience with CircleCI or Jenkins
• Writing automated test (unit tests and functional tests); Experience with testing frameworks/libraries.
• Prolific experience with SES Email Delivery, along with other security/compliance and management tools
• Writing, testing, debugging, and deploying reusable clean code in short dev cycles.
• Very strong technical communication and leadership skills
• Very strong debugging skills.

Remuneration and Benefits

• Access to training and Development Resources
• Conducive Work Environment
• Work-Life Balance
• Daily lunch.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: career@salvoagency.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.