Staff Backend Engineer (Tech / Team Lead, Architect) at uLesson

Description

• We are looking for an experienced Staff Backend (Tech Lead, Architect) Engineer to lead our team of Backend Engineers.
• You will be responsible for developing and maintaining all our backend services.
• Your primary focus will be the development and architecture of our services and their integration with front-end apps.
• You will be working alongside other disciplines working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design and the creation of quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Backend Engineers to build well-tested and highly scalable services
• Collaborate with the product, design and frontend teams to implement new features and build on existing ones
• Design, Maintain and Architect all of our backend services
• Actively participate in all the steps of the software development life cycle
• Be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications and Skills

• BS / MS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• 10+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining modern backend services.
• Extensive experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing
• Proficient knowledge of strongly typed backend programming language and an in-depth understanding of RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Proven ability to build backend services for consumption on Mobile Apps
• Proven experience managing modern hosting environments, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
• Solid understanding of the entire mobile, software and product development life cycle
• 3+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services
• 3+ years of experience with containerisation technologies.

Salary
N800,000 to N1,250,000 Monthly.