Software Engineer (Backend) at Youverify Online Services

Location: Yaba, Lagos

Job Description

• Youverify is looking for a Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Technology team to build the next-generation applications to solving complex problems and work with a world-class engineering and product team to deliver innovative products for our users.

Responsibilities
What a typical week may look like at Youverify:

• Design and implement new features and enhancements using NodeJS
• Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process
• Design, innovate and solve complex problems inherent in operating a high scale classifieds platform
• Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process
• Interact with product owners, partners and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements
• Debugging and Improvement of existing systems
• Expand our micro-services architecture
• Management of all 3rd party tool relationships and integrations from a technical aspect. i.e. SMS providers, Email, APIs, Finance tools, Marketing tools, Business tools, AWS etc.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 4+ years experience working with NodeJS
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries - Mocha, Jest etc
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Experience having worked with at least one Web Framework for your language of choice
• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
• Familiarity with at least one web server technology - (ex: Apache, Nginx)
• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool - Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI, Github Action
• Working knowledge of gRPC and protocol buffers
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker), Caching (Redis), API gateway (KrakenD), orchestration (Kubernetes), Distributed tracing (Jaeger), Service mesh (LinkerD) and observability
• Knowledge of microservices (or SOA), Docker, and/or distributed systems.
• Good working knowledge ofNoSQL systems (MongoDB, Elastic, Cassandra), Relational Database Systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle), Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ), Kafka
• Experience with managing and deploying applications on AWS / DigitalOcean / GCP.