Application Develop - Backend at GVA Partners

APPLICATION DEVELOPER/WEB SERVICES - BACKEND

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

An exciting opportunity exists for a BACKEND APPLICATION DEVELOPER to join a dynamic project team. The role would suit someone with proven experience building production, commercial-quality web based applications that also has proven in depth SQL-Server development experience. Applicants must be comfortable with advanced SQL syntax, SQL Server Business Intelligence development and SQL Server (additional experience with Oracle is highly desirable). The job holder needs to be flexible and open to new ideas or change with the passion and drive to excel in their career. The job holder must be self-directed, organized, and extremely attentive to details. The job holder must have good understanding of  Software design pattern such as Domain Driven Design (DDD), CQRS working in event driven System and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

The Application Developer will be expected to have aptitudes, skills, knowledge and experience on the following areas:

• Demonstrable analytical skills with regard to specifying and detailing business processes and requirements
• Delivery experience with PYTHON, NODE.JS, GOLANG TYPESCRIPT AND GRAPHQL, etc.
• Extensive experience with SQL and NoSQL (MongoDB and elastic search)
• Good practices especially in GIT Source code management and versioning
• Practical experience in Agile development methodologies
• Ability to work both in a collaborative team environment and independently.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with implementation and testing of DB backups, restores and recovery models.
• Database server deployment design, processes, and day-to-day operations, including monitoring and Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Formulation, management and execution of data test strategies, plans and delivery commitments in concert with business and project management efforts.
• Mobile and web service development experience

Problem Solving

• The Application Developer will often be challenged with new problems to which they will need to rely on strong problem solving skills to resolve:
• The ability to accurately identify the cause of a system/application malfunction, interpret that to management and their colleagues, document and propose resolutions
• Fully understand structured methodologies (e.g. Agile) for using programming code to solve business problems
• Ensure all changes and implementations are well tested and managed in a controlled manner with full rollback plans
• Correctly identify when assistance is required and request it accordingly
• Collaborate with the wider team in matters where their support is required

Experience/Technical skills

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.), Computer Science or similar (Minimum 2:2)
• 5+ years experience as an application developer.
• Must be Strong in  Node.js, Typescript and GraphQL, Golang and Python 
• Experience working in Agile environment (Working in scrum team) 
• Good practices especially in GIT Source code management and versioning
• Experience in building APIs
• Ability to work with SQL and NoSQL (Mongodb and elastic search)
• Knowledge of databases including the use of Node.js ORMs to access databases
• Experience with agile tools e.g . Jira
• Good understanding of microservices and related software patterns
• Unit testing of Node.js applications (e.g using Jest)
• Good understanding and working Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes for deployment
• Good understanding of  Software design pattern such as Domain Driven Design (DDD), CQRS working in event driven System and distributed systems