Javascript Backend Engineer at TechAdvance

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• The incumbent will design, build and maintain scalable software systems, develop back-end components and APIs that connect applications with other web services. He/She will also support the tech team to to bring product visions to life.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Writing well-tested backend infrastructure code.
• Building and maintaining public APIs.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.
• Work closely with the CTO to design and develop distributed, resilient and high-performing backend services using Node.js
• Code according to industry and team standards, adhering to good practices
• Write maintainable, readable code with extensive test coverage, ideally applying TDD
• Actively engage with team members to discuss backlog items, design issues and best coding practices
• Create technical documentation for internal and external use

The Ideal Candidate must have

• At least 3 years of experience building production applications with Javascript (and Typescript), Express, Node.js, MongoDB.
• Understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs.
• Good knowledge of HTTP and RESTful API design and architecture
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with, or understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Message Queue technology such as RabbitMQ or Redis, AWS infrastructure services, Docker.
• A strong understanding of backend performance, scalability and security.
• Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.