Soar is a global fintech startup that specializes in financing and investment. Currently headquartered in Saudi Arabia, Soar is growing throughout the region with a mission to help people achieve their financial goals with innovative financial and property investment solutions and tools through its multi-purpose platform, designed to offer a simple and seamless user experience.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Backend Engineer
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Role Summary
- We are looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys building clean,reliable APIs and stable integrations.
- This role is focused on execution, quality, and predictability — writing backend code that works correctly, is easy to maintain, and integrates smoothly with other systems.
- You will work as part of a backend engineering team responsible for developing internal services and integrating with external platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining backend APIs
- Developing services that support financial and operational workflows
- Integrating with third-party systems via REST APIs
- Supporting notification and background processing services
- Improving reliability, observability, and test coverage of backend services
- Target Persona
- Execution-focused and disciplined
- Writes clear, maintainable backend code
- Thinks about edge cases and failure scenarios
- Values testing and automation
- Comfortable working within defined architectures and standards
Qualifications & Skills
- Backend Language
- 4+ years of experience with Node.js
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Javascript
- API Design
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design
- Hands-on experience with: OpenAPI / Swagger
- Ability to design APIs that are: clear, consistent, and well-documented
- Database
- Solid experience with MongoDB
Comfortable with:
- CRUD operations
- Aggregation pipelines
- Understands schema design and performance considerations
- Testing & Quality
- Strong unit testing mindset
- Experience using Jest and/or Mocha
- Writes code that: passes automated tests, behaves consistently in CI, and requires minimal rework
- Integration Experience
- Experience integrating with third-party REST APIs
- Error handling, retries, timeouts, basic idempotency concepts
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with Redis for caching
- Basic knowledge of Docker or containerized environments
- Familiarity with event-driven systems
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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