Lead Backend Engineer at Wakanow

Wakanow is Africa's leading, full-service online travel company. At Wakanow, we understand that everyone likes easy and affordable travel services, so we provide our customers with a one-stop booking portal for Flights, Hotels, Visa Assistance, Holiday Packages, Airport Transfers, an international Travel SIM, a Prepaid Travel Card, a Loyalty program, and much more.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Responsibilities

• Good understanding of Agile Scrum
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable C# code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
• Follow emerging technologies
• Collaborate with other team members to build state of the art solutions

Requirements

• Work Experience: 5+ years
• Proficient in C#, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming
• Strong understanding of SOLID principles
• Strong understanding of Test Driven Development(TDD)
• Skill for writing reusable C# libraries
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Knowledge of concurrency patterns in C#
• Strong understanding of MongoDB, Redis, Elastic Search, Message queue, and MS-SQL data stores
• Strong understanding of ASP.NET Web API (both classic and core)
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure platform and technologies
• Knack for writing clean, readable C# code
• Proficient understanding of GIT version control system
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CICD)
• Experience using Azure DevOps (Visual Studio Online).

Application Closing Date
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