Senior Engineer

Job description

We believe that Africa does better when everyone has room to grow and thrive. No one should be left out because the distance between seeing an opportunity and making a living from it is too great.

We started by delivering small packages but haven’t stopped there. Today, we’re empowering businesses to send raw materials to their production facilities and finished goods to their customers. We’re helping small scale farmers get their produce to the market. We’re making it possible for the hardworking delivery driver to earn a decent living. We are here to make it easy to trade in Africa so that everyone has room to grow. Join us. The overall purpose of this job is to create and maintain APIs to ensure efficient flow of data

Responsibilities

Understand the application requirements to ensure efficiency in terms of speed, scalability, security and sustainability of applications.
Document requirements with regard to proof of concept, data flow diagrams among others.
Document technical requirements and procedures for ease of reference and maintenance.
Write the code for the APIs to ensure there are no pain points.
Push the code to a development branch for review.
Push the code to a staging environment and deployment.
Maintain and debug the code base.
Participate in defining the middleware standards in the company for future skills transfer.
Participate in activities that promote continuous learning and value addition for end users. 
Any other duties that may be assigned by the supervisor.
Work with Product Managers to frame a problem, both mathematically and within the business context.
Designing and developing advanced Sendy applications for the backend stack
Participate in the evolution of company level best practices, standards, and policies as it related to software development

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or other Technology related fields.
Minimum of five years’ experience in software development and preferably in building APIs
Solid understanding of the full middleware development cycle
Proven working experience in software development
Knowledge of JavaScript, Database systems such as MYSQL
Knowledge of frameworks 
Experience in administering applications
Ability to discern and apply knowledge 
Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
Maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
Ability to work effectively with different personalities and across all levels in an organization. 
Must be a self-starter and highly organized.
High level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills 
Ability to work well with people at all levels in the organization.
Personal motivation and drive exhibited through commitment to hard work, continuous improvement and achievement of goals.
Analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Flexibility and adaptability.
Open to change. 
Calm under chaos.
Ability to grow junior & Mid Level engineers to be senior engineers

What We Offer

Comprehensive health insurance – Inpatient / Outpatient / Dental / Optical
Flexible vacation 
All risk Insurance
Office lunch
Opportunity for company stock options

Apply via :

www.sendyit.com