Prospa Technology Backend Engineer - Jobs in Nigeria

Prospa Technology Backend Engineer - Jobs in Nigeria

Prospa is a bank for Nigerian entrepreneurs. We're building the financial operating system for African entrepreneurs and businesses. Using our intuitive and beautifully designed mobile and web application, entrepreneurs are able to manage all their business and banking in one place.

We are backed by Y Combinator, and some of the most well respected and prolific investors, builders and operators in the US, Africa and Europe like Immad Akund (CEO @ mercury.com), Microtraction and many others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description

We’re looking for an enthusiastic backend software engineer to join our team. Your primary responsibilities include architecting, implementing, releasing and supporting features that enable our collaborative product model.

A commitment to collaborative problem solving and creating high-quality products is essential.

You’ll be expected to:

Explore, define and develop new technologies and architecture

Re-evaluate existing technologies to constantly improve our platform

Improve upon and build new business-critical features and infrastructure

What you’ll be doing:

Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features

Design and develop backend and data layers of the software that will run across web and mobile apps

Work with smart algorithm processes to scale software from thousands to millions of transactions

Set up staging and sandbox environments to test software functionality and efficiency

Build smart data collection techniques to better understand user behaviors and experience

Tackle software bugs and technical troubleshooting

Support customer-witnessed testing

Build reusable code and libraries for future use

Critically look at the user problems and design process flows and improve them

Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand member pain points and come up with solutions

Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems

Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards

Requirements

You have:

4+ years developing software in a production environment at scale

A deep understanding of Python

Very good understanding of APIs and

Django Rest framework

Very good understanding of Celery, RabbitMQ

Very good understanding of socket programming

Ability to 'mould' efficient queries to perform tasks on time

Must have built awesome software before that had live active users

Knowledge of technological trends

Working knowledge of Git

Ability to conduct technological analyses and research

Experience working with transactional databases (MySQL DB, PostgreSQL) and caching systems (Memcached, Redis)

Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale mobile applications

An appreciation for maintainable and well-tested code

Who are we looking for?

Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product

Impact and mission driven

Champion mentality; result and goal orientated

Great team player with humility

Ability to communicate clearly and concisely

A keen and strategic problem solver

Enjoy learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work

You possibly have:

Experience with Node.js

Experience with AWS as the cloud provider. Accepted alternatives are GCP or Azure

Experience with Flask or FastAPI is desired but not required

Experience with Test-Driven Development

Application Closing Date

13 Sep 2022.

Method of Application

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