Back-End Engineer Job at CeedCap

CeedCap is a startup studio and an early-stage investment management group. The company provides venture building, private equity, strategic advisory, and corporate innovation services to the technology-enabled sector. Operating as a bridge between Africa’s digital economy and the international VC investment, CeedCap connects people, capital, and ideas to accelerate innovation and provide value to portfolio companies, limited partners (LP) and the connected world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Back-End Engineer

Job Location: Nigeria

Profile

• An exciting and varied position, we are looking for an analytical, results-driven Back-End Engineer who will work with the Product development team. As a back-end engineer, you will spearhead the troubleshooting and improvement of the current back-end applications and processes. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by the front-end engineers into the relevant application(s).
• To be successful in this role, you should have experience with back-end engineering and basic understanding of front-end technologies. If you also have an interesting collection of projects that you have worked on, we’d like to meet you.

Job Purpose

• Collaborating with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products
• Documenting development phases and monitor systems
• Ensuring software is up-to-date with latest technologies
• Ensuring the integration of user-facing elements developed by the front-end engineers with server side logic
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Developing tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Optimization of our platforms for maximum speed and scalability
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Designing and implementation of data storage solutions
• Developing high-quality software design and architecture
• Identifying, prioritizing and executing tasks in the software development life cycle
• Automating tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Reviewing and debugging code
• Performing validation and verification testing
• Performing other relevant tasks as may be assigned by reporting line manager

Diversity statement

• We are working hard to create a representative, inclusive, and super-friendly team because we know that different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds make for a better workplace. And that creates a better experience for our customers. CeedCap doesn’t discriminate based on race, color, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

Requirements

• Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude
• Ability to work independently
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any related field/degree
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors, such as LESS and SASS
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Good understanding of Micro-services and user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load change
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Setup and administration of backups
• Outputting data in different formats
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient knowledge of two or more of these back-end programming languages and frameworks: PHP, Laravel, Lumen, JavaScript, Python, Scala etc.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GiOWASP security principles
• Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience using system monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic) and automated testing frameworks
• Familiarity with various operating systems (Linux, Mac OS, Windows etc.)

Benefits
Compensation + Benefit