Job Opportunities at Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN)

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Descriptions

• We are sourcing for a Senior Python/Django Engineer who has experience building enterprise-level applications and can contribute to the strategic business needs by translating business requirements into a technology solution. In this role, you will be tasked with the design, code, and test applications using Object-Oriented Design.
• This role requires an engineer who is self-driven, ready to take on a new challenge, and able to deliver solutions from start to finish.
• This is a senior-level software engineering position and ideal for someone willing to lead and mentor a relatively young team of developers, testers and DevOps engineers.

Principal Responsibilities

• Develop well-designed and performing Python applications and services using scalable techniques.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc
• Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
• Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
• Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
• Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years’ experience building web-based applications using Python/Django.
• Should have experience in architecting applications in Django framework.
• Familiarity with React and modern JavaScript with the ability to collaborate with front-end developers.
• Excellent skills in REST-based web service APIs & SQL queries.
• Experience working with DBs such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB or equivalent data stores.
• Passion for technical and team leadership and a willingness to mentor and work with developers at all levels of experience.
• Experience with RabbitMQ and Celery
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, Docker containers, Fabric.
• Understanding of CI/CD.
• Demonstrable track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing
• Needs and delivering results in an agile, dynamic environment.
• Experience with AWS / Cloud Hosting is a big plus
• Comfortable using team collaboration tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, and Microsoft Teams.
• Be mindful of adding code into a large codebase and embrace writing unit tests.
• Excel within an agile software development environment that allows for precise delivery timetables with weekly scrum sprints.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.

Additional Information

• Working conditions
• Flexibility is important.
• Equal opportunity
• The role is open to anyone who meets the above criteria regardless of race or nationality
• Remuneration:
• Competitive based on experience

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Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Descriptions

• We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who is motivated to excel in advanced client-side technologies.
• You will be responsible for designing modern interfaces using the latest JavaScript based architecture and deploying the product to our cloud infrastructure.
• You will work with the Product Managers to understand customer requirements and drive UI/UX Designers and Developers to implement features.

Principal Responsibilities

• Work with Product Managers to define product requirements
• Collaborate with UX/UI Designers to build modern interfaces
• Transform large and complex datasets to beautiful visualizations
• Implement compelling, usable UIs; contribute to their design, and engineer them with React and Redox
• Improve performance and address scalability limits
• Design scalable client-side architecture that works with a multi-tenant cloud API
• Ensure secure coding standards to protect the clients against various vulnerabilities
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Join a tightly knit team solving hard problems the right way
• Mentor junior team members and review their code

Qualifications

• Developing new user-facing features using React.js
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Strong experience and knowledge with HTML, CSS, JavaScript ES6, React JS and Redux.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Experienced with RESTful APIs
• Some familiarity with continuous integration software such as Jenkins, Travis CI, etc.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Bitbucket etc.
• Understanding of CI/CD
• Good knowledge in Hybrid App development
• Experience in building UI layout with multiple device support Unit testing-JEST
• You need to be ready to hit the ground running for critical deliverables.
• Ability to provide technical leadership to group of developers

Additional Information

• Working conditions
• Flexibility is important.
• Equal opportunity
• The role is open to anyone who meets the above criteria regardless of race or nationality
• Remuneration: Competitive based on experience