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Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer / Chief Innovations Officer

Job Purpose

• We seek a backend developer with proven experience in dealing with large scale systems.
• This is a role that entails the full development cycle of web services: from architecture/design to development, testing, debugging, deployment, documentation and maintenance/support, thereby creating an integration architecture that enables productivity, allows for rapid integration of internal and cloud solutions, and promotes a highly decoupled application ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Define the systems integration needs: from interface to technology needs, and the transitory steps needed to ensure continuity of the systems, data and business.
• Define the integration and dataflow architectures and designing the APIs that can be a point of stability that endures as the platform technologies around them changes.
• Create and manage a best-in-class and complete external-facing API layer for business-partner integration to support external thick- clients and third-party applications
• Collaborate with the support-teams around production incidents involving integration to directly or indirectly ensure their timely resolution and recovery and preventive measures are taken to avoid recurrence.
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to understand changes made to the software under test.
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases and ensure traceability with software requirements.
• Ensure and confirm that the solution/product requirement designs are fulfilled.
• Collaborate with other teams in order to ensure software-system consistency.
• Protect all IT Intellectual properties of the company.
• Any other responsibility as assigned by the team lead/CTO.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software development experience with strong programming and engineering skills
• Strong analytical/software architecture skills
• Experience in designing, leading and implementing technology solutions
• Ability to produce comprehensive technical/API documentations
• Strong knowledge of security standards, practices and architecture
• Willingness to operate and iterate quickly
• Mastery of Python and the Flask web framework, as well as, extensive deployment experience with these technologies
• Familiarity with any other Python web framework
• Experience with SQLAlchemy and other Python libraries
• Production experience with tools like Celery, Supervisor, Gunicorn/uWSGI, Redis/RabbitMQ, Nginx/Apache, HA-Proxy
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS, Javascript and the Jinja2 templating engine
• Good knowledge of SQL and familiarity with an RDBMS like PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience with software version control (Git, Mercury, SVN...)
• Proficiency with the Linux OS
• Familiarity with JSON, XML, Regular expressions
• Experience with web services and integrations alongside an understanding of the concepts of REST and SOAP API architectures
• Experience with cloud platforms/technologies (AWS, DigitalOcean, Google App Engine...)
• A good understanding of software design patterns
• A good background in data structures and algorithms
• Some understanding of concepts such as asynchronous, concurrent and distributed programming.

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Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Reporting Line: Chief Innovations Officer

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this role is to open new business opportunities and convert leads for the organization.
• The incumbent will ensure business growth through directing new sources of Income for the organization and ensure business activities are delivered in accordance with the organizational strategy.

Responsibilities

• Grow the profitability of the company through ensuring strategic and tactical leads conversion.
• Create new avenues of revenue generation for the organization.
• Develop and lead the Business Development team in sourcing, managing and implementing new business opportunities.
• Manage, retain relationships with existing clients and Increase client base.
• Proactively identify, develop, and drive long-term strategies and initiatives that will result in profitable growth.
• Take ownership of opportunities which management deems strategic and important.
• Ensure seamless execution of new business opportunities.
• Drive market analysis and research to identify trends, needs, competition and new opportunities.
• Grow product and business portfolios of the organization.

Requirements

• Excellent business and financial acumen.
• Client relationship management.
• Client needs assessment.
• Client & service proposal writing.
• Negotiation skills.
• Research & Strategic skills.
• Innovation skills.
• Business strategy development.