Senior Platform Engineer at Carbon Nigeria

Carbon is a pan-African digital bank with a mission to provide friction-free finance to its customers. Carbon promises to play a fundamental role in its customers’ lives wherever they are, with flexible solutions. We pride ourselves on our efficiency and with just $10mm of equity raised in 2015, we have disbursed over $100m in loans and earned more than $30mm in revenue over the last 2 years. Carbon has operations in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, supported by a talented team spread between Lagos, Nairobi, London, Argentina, and Palo Alto so we operate with a remote-first mindset. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time (Hybrid)

About the role

• 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 that run Carbon.
• 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.

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, and Datadog)
• Experience with managing databases, caches, and message queues. (We use Postgres, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka)
• Experience as a 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

• A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team.
• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Career Development & Growth.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Recruitment process

• Call with People team
• Case Study ( Assessment)
• Interview.