Backend Engineer at Klasha

About the role

• Klasha is looking for an analytical, results-driven, fast-moving Backend Engineer to join our team and help to build an exciting payments and logistics startup in Africa.
• The Backend Engineer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to build our product, write clean code, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users. You should have excellent communication, computer, and project management skills.
• To succeed as a Backend Engineer you should be focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating a better end-user experience. You should be knowledgeable, collaborative, and motivated.

We're looking for mid-level Engineers preferably in Lagos, Nigeria.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the Frontend Engineers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
• Define and communicate technical and design requirements
• Provide training, help, and support to other team members
• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future
• Build and scale our product with input from other team members
• Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, and system administrators

Requirements

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience as an engineer
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement
• Excellent project and time management skills
• Strong problem solving, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently or with a group
• Ability to move fast and adapt as the business requires
• Strong knowledge of the African payments and logistics ecosystem will be an advantage

Key Competencies

For successful performance in this role, the candidate must demonstrate:

• Knowledge of backend programming languages
• Knowledge of popular frameworks
• Data structures and algorithms
• Familiarity with Servers
• Knowledge of APIs
• Problem solving
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills