Fullstack DeveloperTalentUp Africa

What We Expect From You

• Prior experience building and managing REST APIs for large-scale distributed systems. We are building consumer-facing products and the expected scale is in 10s of millions of user interactions every day, so demonstration of experience handling such scale in your past experience will be critical.
• You are comfortable with a distributed async architecture and are aware of the challenges that come with ensuring reliability at scale. Have you had a time when things don’t go according to “the plan”? Tell us more about how you figured it out.
• You have worked with multiple DB technologies - NoSQL, RDBMS, Graph, etc. Better yet, you’ve built an adapter? Show us!
• Secure by Design - yeah? Good. Given the type of data we deal with, this is an extremely important aspect of what we do.
• Performance - You do know that processing millions of transactions has a cost and you know your way around projecting the cost of being functionally complete and performance bottlenecks.
• Impact - You care about making a difference. And it shows in your work, in your approach. Tell us all about it, we love people that care deeply about something.
• A passion for building world-class software, combined with a vision to think big. Like really big.
• Contribute to Open Source - You have a Github/Bitbucket profile and have something we can talk about when we chat.
  

What You’ll Do

• Work with stakeholders to add definitions to project requirements
• Assess the scope and build recommendations for Minimum Viable Product
• Work with engineering and project managers to define project timelines
• Analyze requirements, create and document component/system designs
• Implement features and functionality with clean and maintainable code
• Take pride in software quality through rigorous functional testing and writing automated unit tests
• Ensure appropriate metrics, monitoring, and logging are in place, in short responsible for taking requirements to deployment
• Participate in on-call rotations, bug fixing, and ongoing tuning and improvements

Who You Are

• You have around 2-4 years of work experience, preferably in product development
• You are a problem solver and use programming language or frameworks as tools
• You have a good grasp of computer science fundamentals
• You are good with Data Structures and Algorithms
• You like learning new technologies and look for feedback to improve yourself
• You are not afraid of going outside your comfort zone
• You truly believe that testing your code is your responsibility
• You understand what it takes to write good quality production-ready code.