Full Stack Engineer at Flutterwave

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Department: Engineering - PEI

About the Role

• We are looking for a driven, passionate, and committed individual to join the team as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond.
• As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting the team in Identifying, prioritizing, and executing tasks in the software development life cycle of a product and manage and oversee projects for the company.

Responsibilities
What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be:

• 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 NodeJs as well as web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VueJs
• Understanding of scope and client’s business model
• Mentoring and implementation of best practices and processes
• Compliance with documented process (SDLC)
• Creativity and efficiency index, usage of components and tools.

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

• Proficient with objected oriented design in a back-end programming language e.g. NodeJs
• Proficient with web applications and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VueJs
• 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
• Ability to finish projects on time
• Displaying Enthusiasm/Motivation/Creativity for assignment.