Integrations Engineer at TechAdvance

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Reporting Line: Team Lead, Integrations

Job Purpose

• This is a junior backend developer role.
• We are looking for a passionate individual who is initiative-driven and ready to learn as much as possible while growing with our entire team.
• This role entails being involved in the development of web backends that power a slew of financial services.
• You will be involved in the development, testing and documentation of the products of our Integrations team.
• You will be working in tandem with other engineering teams, building services that power volumes of financial transactions daily.
• You will also help to automate internal processes. The role also involves integrating with a lot of web APIs, as well as, the creation of well-defined APIs for our various B2B clients to connect to.

Responsibilities

• Complete assigned development tasks.
• Participate in code review sessions.
• Collaborate with support teams to provide timely and helpful information in resolving issues efficiently.
• Write automated tests.
• Contribute to the documentation of the codebase and any other assigned documentation tasks.
• Collaborate with other teams as needed.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering team in order to ensure software-system consistency.

Requirements
The Ideal Person:

• A good background in Python
• Familiarity with Flask, SQLAlchemy and other Python libraries/frameworks
• Knowledge of web servers and concepts like caching, ...
• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Basic knowledge of SQL
• Basic knowledge of Git
• Familiarity with the Linux OS
• Familiarity with JSON/XML
• Basic understanding of REST concepts
• Basic understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Willingness to operate and iterate quickly
• Ability to produce comprehensive technical/API documentation.

Bonus:
The following skills would be an added advantage:

• Knowledge of any other programming language (Extra bonus for a functional language)
• Coding Standard (PEP-8)
• Python Docstrings (PEP 257)
• Familiarity with unit testing

Experience:
Full stack cloud software development experience and 1+ years of software development experience with strong programming, and engineering skills.