Senior Software Engineer at Prophius

 Prophius is a provider of  information and technology services.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Lagos

Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled Backend engineer to join our Engineering team. 

What you’ll bring

Prophius Engineers bring Fun, Smart-work, collaboration, and innovation to the table. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will bring your technical skills as a key contributor to the evolution of the platform to launch new products.

You will-

• use your technical skills to build amazingly exciting world-class products
• seek to understand the business that your code supports and work to identify risks (in code, features, and design)
• constantly communicate with diverse internal and external stakeholders while embracing agile practices
• constantly yearn for new learnings on global fintech trends and emerging technologies
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• You must be comfortable practicing test-driven development because it produces high-quality, reliable, and more maintainable code. We deliver user value, solve problems, and ship code multiple times a day to improve our members’ experience and maximize value to the organization.

Role Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technical solutions from coding, release, to production.
• Write clean codes to develop functional web applications.
• Be responsible for areas of product and service ecosystem.
• Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers within the Engineering team
• Design and improve the maintainability of the code base through innovative design.
• Diagnose complex issues across various levels of the stack.
• Understand the business context deeply and leverage engineering knowledge to propose creative solutions to problems.
• Work collaboratively to complete projects, showcase progress, and address problems.
• Constantly improve to keep pace with new innovations and technologies.
• Balance deep work with cross-team collaboration.
• Work alongside front-end developers to produce efficient and user-friendly systems.
• Work on other tasks as assigned by the Engineering Leadership.

Role Requirements

• IT-related Education/Degree
• Minimum of 5years of professional experience in at least one of the following backend technologies- Python Django/Flask and/or Javascript/Node.
• Knowledge of Object-oriented Programming concepts.
• Good understanding of relational databases, and agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of core data structures.
• Understanding of test-driven development (TDD).
• Familiarity with containerization (i.e. Docker), and knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool.
• Experience working with AWS, architecture, and design principles.
• Strong team leader and player, with the ability to improve knowledge and skills.
• Good Interpersonal, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Strong passion for Software Development.

Why Prophius?

• Beautiful office located right in the heart of Oniru, Victoria Island
• Flexible working hours
• A chance to work in a hyper-growth Fintech start-up where you will build ground-breaking, novel technology products.
• You will work within an amazingly friendly team where your voice is heard and contributions truly valued.
• You will be entitled to 20 working days of Paid Time off because we strongly believe in work-life balance.
• Office TGIF’s and Karaoke
• We work hard and play harder! :)

How to Apply

Interested Applicants should apply online at Prophius.

Good luck!!!