Back End Engineer (.Net) at Flutterwave

Job Summary:

Identify, prioritizing and executing tasks in the software development life cycle of a product.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Produce application architecture design translated from high-level product/user requirements
• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product feature/enhancements in an agile environment
• Develop customer-facing applications using RESTful APIs
• Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements
• Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
• Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
• Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object oriented design principles
• Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as setup automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability
• Work with frontend designers and converting designs to visual elements.
• Maintain code and application security at all times. Ensure data protection.
• Develop applications in back-end programming languages like Java, .NET, PHP as well as web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Node.js), Jquery

Competence and Skill Requirements:

• Proficient with object oriented design in a back-end programming language e.g. Java, .NET, PHP, JavaScript (Node.js)
• Proficient with web applications and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery
• Possess excellent knowledge of code versioning tools such as Git
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support company products
• Proficient in data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Understand design principles behind highly scalable applications
• Be able to manage applications on a wide variety of cloud platforms, and perform database administration and application scaling to support load changes
• Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Possess solid communication skills and a strong customer focus
• Maintain good knowledge of emerging technologies

Key Performance Indicators:

• Clarity of documentation
• Quality of written codes
• High velocity rate (Number of features delivered in a period)
• Fast backlog burn rate
• No of escaped bugs
• Application user satisfaction score 
• Uptime vs. downtime of developed applications
• Accuracy and timeliness of management information and reports
• Timeliness of responses to customer enquiries and complaints across all channels