Backend Engineer at Sterling Bank

We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you're:

Interested in building products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
An experienced Backend Engineer that is passionate about building scalable and reliable web platforms.

We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.

# **About this Role**

What will you be doing as our Backend Engineer?

• You'll be working as part of a cross disciplinary group to clearly understand user needs, challenging assumptions, iterating quickly to learn fast, using data and running experiments to evaluate solutions to develop secure, robust, and maintainable solutions at pace.
• Define and deliver resilient software that meets and exceeds the expectations of your team, managers, and product stakeholders.
• Develop readable, testable, and maintainable code to spec.
• Commitment to continued technical and professional growth.
• Interfacing with stakeholders to understand their business, goals, and visions for products supported by the product organisation.
• Lending your knowledge and positive approach to overall team development.

Frameworks, and technologies we use include but are not limited to

• NodeJs + TypeScript
• Kubernetes + Helm
• Redis
• RabbitMQ
• Docker
• MongoDB
• Elastic Search + Kibana + FluentD
• Github + CircleCI

You should apply if:

• you love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
• you deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
• you’re interested in building distributed systems and tackling the fun challenges and complexity that comes with that.
• you understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
• you’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
• you are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.

Qualifications & Characteristics

As the ideal candidate for this role you have:

• At least **2 years** of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for web applications
• Are proficient in writing code in Javascript or TypeScript, and enjoy learning new languages.
• Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases like Postgres or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with key-value databases like Redis or memcached.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests.
• Good knowledge of Docker, container orchestration and microservices architecture
• Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications
• Exposure to Agile methodologies.
• Experience working remotely as an effective member of a team.
• Fun collaborating, problem-solving, and being part of a team environment.
• A vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written).
• The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and limited supervision.
• The ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Logistics

Our main office is in Marina Lagos, though you have the opportunity to work remotely twice a week.

# What the hiring process looks like... typically

• a take-home technical test which usually lasts for a week.
• an on-site interview (varies by role and seniority, but we may invite you to a technical interview, product/design-centric session, and possibly an engineering leadership interview).
• a short meeting with our head of engineering.

You'll be given an offer if you can pass these three stages.

We understand that everyone's situation is different, that you may be able to dedicate more or less time to this process, or have other restrictions. If any stage of our process is challenging for you and you'd like us to offer an alternative *please* let us know. We're committed to finding the right people, and don't want anyone to be excluded because of circumstances.