Fullstack Developer / Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at a Tech and Media Startup

A Tech and Media Startup is recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title:  Fullstack Developer / Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Background

• While India, China, Poland, Romania and Mexicohas dominated the IT outsourcing space over the years, Nigeria with a vast Talent Pool still lack behind in demand.
• January 2025 will be the beginning of a Tech and media Startup journey with a vision for 1000 IT Talents by 2028.
• Starting with a team of highly technical and passionate individuals to share our vision and take responsibility for their roles and build a Foundation of Values and Principles. This is a fantastic opportunity for all .

Description

• We're looking for Full Stack Developer/CTO/Project Manager, who knows what technology is and where it is going. You will lead the architecture of tools and technologies for innovative, highly scalable and secure SaaS, feature development, developing algorithms for efficient, error-free transactions as well as ensuring tractability of every transaction in real-time.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of features. Work based on best practices and priorities for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, operations and collaborating other teams for great products.
• Proactive in planning and designing features. Working closely with the Product and UX teams in order to product vision.
• Understand and measure the impact of your features using state of the art monitoring tools.
• Build and update automation infrastructure
• Implement and test your code with unit and integration tests, and contribute to our automation infrastructure.
• Raising the bar on quality, security, performance, scalability, usability and operations
• Stay abreast of developments and trends in Cloud architectures, web dev and programming languages

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum 4 years of work experience as preferably with technologies such as Node.JS, React, GraphQL, Micro-services, Postgres DB
• Highly proficient in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C++, Python, Go, Shell, PHP, C#, TypeScript, etc.
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, including; data structures, object-oriented programming, automation, design,n and analysis of algorithms
• Experience leading the design, build, and deployment of complex and performing (reliable and scalable) software solutions
• Microservices, Nameko, CookieCutter Unit Testing, CI/CD
• Good knowledge of service-oriented development and design patterns
• Experience with Web application development and SaaS models (Highly desirable)
• Flask (desirable)
• Expertise with the cloud provider AWS and their service offerings: Aurora, RDS, S3, ALB, especially in the compute and networking spaces.
• Good understanding of Linux and experience with modern infrastructure technologies: Kubernetes, MySQL, Redis, Prometheus, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Experience with Kafka / Faust / Kafka Streams (desirable)
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through the actual launch of the project
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Benefits

• Salary: N1,000,000 monthly.
• Possible share Ownership
• 20 days holiday after 12 months
• Private healthcare scheme from 24 Months.
• Life Assurance coverage after 24 months
• A structured progression path for career acceleration.
• Access to a range of courses to help develop and progress your career, after 24 months.
• Gym membership

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2024.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs with a Cover letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note 

• If you would like accommodation, we can offer a 6-month free serviced accommodation for the right candidate, please email us at: [email protected].
• This information will be used only for determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.
• Interviews will commence from late January or First week of February 2025 accordingly.