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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Backend Developer
Location: Abuja
Job Summary
- The Back end Developer who is analytical, results-driven who will work with team members to troubleshoot and improve current back-end applications and processes.
- The Back end developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users.
- You should have excellent communication, computer, and project management skills.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Participate actively in requirements gathering and analysis.
- Work with business analyst to determine the best part of solutions to be implemented.
- Actively participate in requirement gathering process
- Collaborate with the relevant teams and departments to produce software design and architecture
- Write clean, readable and testable code that is scalable and well documented
- Review code from junior and intermediate developers.
- Maintain, update, refactor and debug new and existing codes.
- Test and deploy applications and systems.
- Serve as an expert within your area of competence.
- Provide technical support when necessary.
- Keep up to date with the terminology, concepts and best practices for coding
- Develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends.
- Record and report data to the appropriate parties, such as clients, leadership or management.
- Commit to continuous improvement, education and training to remain current on best practices, new programming languages, and to better assist other team members.
- Take lead on projects when necessary.
- Mentor new developers.
- Appraise the performance of junior and intermediate developers.
Qualifications / Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related fields.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in backend software development using PHP and MySQL or any other backend languages.
- 2+ years experience working with Laravel and/or Lumen or Express or Django and/or Django Rest Framework.
- Experience in NodeJS, ReactJS and MongoDB would be a plus.
- Candidate must reside in Abuja.
Job Knowledge:
- Create and consume RESTful APIs.
Skills / Competencies:
- Working knowledge of PHP, Laravel/Lumen.
- Javascript, Node.js, MySQL and MongoDB
- Working understanding of frontend web
- technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and VanillaJS
- Proficient knowledge of version control & SSH
- Deep technical understanding of RESTful API’s
- Working experience with cloud hosting platforms
Application Closing Date
17th January, 2023l
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
