Software Engineer Job at Verto

Verto is a global B2B payments solution that helps businesses send money to anyone, anywhere. Using a purposefully built tech infrastructure and payment rails, you can instantly send and receive money in over 200 countries. Today, Verto helps 1000+ customers from startups, SMEs to large corporate companies convert millions of dollars per year. Using our liquidity and price discovery marketplace solution, new customers can convert between 49 currencies, open bank account or wallets in seconds and make payments on a single platform.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Software Engineer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full time

Responsibilities

• Design RESTful APIs
• Work with other team members to develop and test highly scalable web applications and services as part of a suite of products in the Data governance domain working with petabyte-scale data
• Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members
• Use AWS to set up geographically agnostic systems in the cloud.
• Exercise your strong skills & working knowledge of MySQL and relational databases
• Prototype and develop new ideas and participate in all parts of the lifecycle from research to release
• Work within a small team owning deliverables for our web APIs and front end.
• Use development tools such as AWS Codebuild, git, npm, Visual Studio Code, Serverless framework, Swagger Specs, Angular, Flutter, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, SQS, Kafka etc.
• Design and develop dockerized applications that will be deployed flexibly either on the cloud or on-premises depending on business requirements

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional development experience using any object-oriented language
• Have developed and delivered at least one application using NodeJS
• Experience with modern web application building libraries such as Angular, Polymer, React
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives
• Excellent understanding of HTTP and REST standards
• Experience with relational as well as MySQL databases
• Good experience writing unit and acceptance tests
• Proven experience in developing highly scalable distributed cloud applications on a cloud system, preferably AWS
• You’re a great communicator and are capable of not just doing the work, but teaching others and explaining the “why” behind complicated technical decisions.
• You aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves: This role will evolve, and we’ll want you to evolve with it!