Principal Engineer at Carbon in Lagos

As a backend engineer in the Platform team, you’ll get to work across a wide range of systems and environments.
As a team, we’re responsible for designing, building, and operating our physical data centers, all of our networking, the services we consume from AWS, and the software we run on top like Kubernetes, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and Terraform.
We're investing a lot of up-front effort in building scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting Carbon’s continued growth.

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain our constantly evolving platform, infrastructure, and services.
Lead and manage a team/squad of Engineers to deliver consistent value in an agreed cadence
Teach and collaborate with others on how to run production systems with confidence and autonomy.
Remain comfortable supporting teams with expertise in the areas of deployment, infrastructure configuration, and scalability in all parts of the stack.
Help cultivate the engineering organization e.g. engineer interviews, peer mentoring, and technical evangelism.
Apply modern software engineering practices including writing and reviewing code
Guide the planning and implementation of new features.
Design scalable and resilient systems
Actively contribute to the products in their space through hands-on development
Mentor junior engineers in the team to help them up-skill as engineers
Contribute to and drive good Engineering practice and Ways of Working within their teams

Requirements

Experience in building robust, maintainable, scalable applications
Able to work comfortably in a team.
Experience building server-side applications using JavaScript (Node.js) and Java (Spring Framework).
Experience with VMs, containers, and serverless computer platforms. (We use AWS for computing, e.g. EC2, ECS, and Lambda)
Experience with networking, CDNs, HTTP, and TCP/IP basics. (We use Cloudflare, and AWS VPCs and many of our services implement JSON and/or GraphQL APIs)
Experience with operating systems, configuration management, and "Infrastructure as Code". (We use AMIs, Docker Images, Terraform)
Experience with monitoring applications (We use Amazon Cloudwatch, Datadog)
Experience with managing databases, caches, and message queues. (We use Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka)
Experience in professional "DevOps", "SRE" or "SysAdmin" roles
Experience working with programming languages (We mostly use NodeJS, Java, or Scala but also Python, and Javascript)
Ability to work with unfamiliar codebases, including internal, open-source, and 3rd party code we depend on.
Knowledge of microservices (or SOA) and/or distributed systems.
Experience in Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and/or other automated testing.
Understanding of basic financial and accounting concepts.
Ability to write JavaScript in TypeScript and/or ES6.

Benefits

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