Backend Engineer (Infrastructure, API Engineer, Devops) at Cowrywise Financial Technology Limited

Cowrywise Financial Technology Limited is a digital wealth management platform democratizing access to savings and investment products for the underserved but growing Millenials in Africa. Joining us would mean being part of an interdisciplinary team dedicated to a lofty vision of building the next-generation wealth management platform for Africans.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer (Infrastructure, API Engineer, Devops)

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time

About the Position

• We are looking for a passionate and skilled software engineer to join our backend/infrastructure team.
• This role entails architecting and developing software to solve diverse business problems in wealth management.
• You must have interest in the infrastructure running your code as much as you have in the code itself.
• You should be able to build high-quality, testable and fully performing software in compliance with our coding standards and technical design.

What You Will Do
As a backend engineer, you will work on product features, APIs and Internal tools. Your work will involve:

• Working with different technologies and products for which you will design, build, test, and ship code every day.
• Maintaining and extending our existing code base
• Creating technical specification documents for new features and products
• Reviewing PRs, debugging production issues and supporting our customers
• Tuning and monitoring the performance of our infrastructure stack and automating our workflows.
• Building new internal services and tools for the engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

• BSc Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 3+ years' experience of working in a backend / software development role
• Significant experience in developing APIs using python in any framework (Django, FastAPI, Flask etc)
• Knowledge of Golang and Typescript will be a bonus
• Excellent knowledge of Databases (SQL/NoSQL): MySQL, Mongo, Timescale, AWS RDS
• Experience with AWS Cloud, Linux OS performance tuning and APM tools
• Experience with cloud deployments & writing Docker configurations
• Good knowledge of queuing systems / distributed systems / Message brokers / In memory caches.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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