Backend Engineer Job at Summitech Computing Limited

Summitech Computing Limited is a digital team of young & ambitious minds in Nigeria who have worked on some of the most bleeding edge tech products in Nigeria. At Summitech, we’re changing the way companies engage with their consumers by applying user-centric product design practices that solve real problems.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Backend Engineer

Job Location: Lagos

Job Description

• We are currently hiring a Back-end Engineer to join our team and be responsible for supporting software development of new and existing applications.
• If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you.

Responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will be able to:

• Generate recyclable code libraries
• Implement ongoing security systems
• Attend regular meeting with the front-end team to expose weaknesses and problems
• Routinely inspect server code for speed optimization
• Conceptualize and implement solutions for data storage
• Configure usability of all front side applications
• Maintain a stable server with zero downtime
• Keep a backup library before any large changes to server
• Write clean, scalable & efficient code
• Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Design and implement RESTful APIs
• Optimize performance of applications for full scale production deployments
• Provide code documentation and other inputs to technical documents
• Troubleshoot and debug to optimise performance

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree qualification.
• 3+ years prior experience as a back-end engineer/ related field.
• Experience with software engineering best practices such as design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing etc.
• Demonstrable knowledge of NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS, Redis Server, and Typescript.
• In-depth understanding of data structures and other computer science fundamentals.
• Problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Familiarity with front side platforms such JAVA, HTML5 and CSS
• Understanding of accessibility and server compliance
• Previous experience working with multiple platforms such as Desktop, Mobile, Tablet etc
• Ability to work remotely.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@summitech.io using “Backend Engineer Application” as the subject of the mail.