Senior Backend Engineer at Andela

About the Role

In this role, you will primarily work as a Senior Backend Engineer within the Technology department building world-class internal products to support Andela’s business needs.

As the Senior Backend Engineer, you will take on complex tasks and complete them despite roadblocks, grabbing others for help or insight as necessary. You will require very little oversight beyond high-level direction; you can take a complex user story, break it down into sub-tasks, and complete their sub-tasks with relative ease. You will show initiative beyond knocking tasks off a list; you are able to identify and suggest areas of future work for yourself or your team. You will drive product velocity and deliver products with confidence. You will take pride in building products that are key to helping Andela grow and scale as an organization.

You’re the kind of person who:

• Believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• Is constantly learning and expanding your skill sets on and off the job.
• Can mentor entry and mid-level developers willing to become world-class.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Work closely with Product Managers and Stakeholders to understand the business needs
• Deliver complex software solutions that meet those needs
• Share responsibility for strategically scaling Andela’s internal systems
• Promote and nurture good team practices such as TDD, code reviews, and pair programming
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches
• Mentor entry and mid-level developers willing to become world-class

We are interested in a candidate with experience in the following technologies that we currently use:

Required

• Javascript / Node.js
• Typescript
• Postgres
• Google Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Kubernetes

Optional

• Angular
• Identity Providers (Okta, Auth0, Google Identity Platform)
• NestJS

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of core software development experience
• Strong understanding of computer science principles
• Experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• TDD and pair programming experience
• Experience or strong interest in microservices architectures and distributed systems
• Solid written and verbal communication
• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Solid foundation in Unix administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with system automation
• Deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps, Continuous Delivery and TDD
• Epic Values Alignment

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.