Back End Engineer at Flutterwave

Flutterwave is a company with a team of ex-bankers, entrepreneurs, and engineers that was founded in 2016. Its vision is to make it easier for Africans to build global businesses that can make and accept any payment, anywhere from across Africa and around the world.

JOB TITLE: Back End Engineer

JOB LOCATION: Lekki, Lagos

JOB DETAILS:

About the Back End Engineer Role

• We are looking for a driven, passionate, and committed individual to join the team as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond.
• As a Backend Engineer (NodeJS), your primary responsibility will be to implement, maintain, and where applicable, support product features (and or enhancements).

What Your Day to Day Activities Will Be 

• Implementation, testing, delivery, and maintenance of product features (new and existing)
• Creating technical reports on feature implementations 
• Research on existing/new product features and areas of improvement 
• Commitment to creating and maintaining secure coding practices (and standards)
• Providing support for product features (when needed) 
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned.

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waver

• Proven work experience in Software Engineering
• Good knowledge of Javascript for the backend (NodeJS) [Typescript is a plus] 
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Good, working, knowledge of the SQL query language (MySQL flavor). [Knowledge and understanding of ORMs is a plus]
• Good, working, knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially). [Knowledge and understanding of ODMs is a plus]
• Good research skills
• Good time commitment/management skills
• Attention to details
• Quick learner.

Application Closing Date
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