Backend Engineer at d.light

Job Location: Preference for Nairobi but also open to other locations

Reporting to: Head of Software Engineering

Background and Position Description:

As a Backend Engineer you enjoy building functional and robust systems. You are energized by working with and supporting developers, designers and other cross-functional team members alike. You enjoy collaborating in small, fast-moving product teams varying from startup environments to enterprise.

You have worked with Relational and non-relational database systems, and extensively worked on APIs (consuming from external sources and also building to serve 3rd parties and other applications).

Key Responsibilities:

• Minimum of 3-5 years Java/Python/Scala/Object Oriented and JS web development experience.
• Expert Level object-oriented programming with a firm grasp of design patterns.
• A passion for staying on top of industry trends and technologies.
• Extensive experience with relational databases (PostGres, Mysql).
• Experience optimizing and refactoring application code.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks.
• A desire to be personally responsible for production-level code.
• Professional, precise communication skills.
• Deep knowledge of version control and paradigms around it such as gitflow.
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multithreading, when needed.
• Experience with cloud environment apps (AWS, Google, etc).
• Large scale web development experience for performance, stability, reliability, and scale.
• Humility, tenacity, inclusivity, and team spirit.
• An ability to pivot gracefully to respond to the needs of our partners, users, and landscape.
• Experience with product management tools and software, prior experience with Atlassian is an advantage.
• An ability to describe technical details to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.
• Business driven, people focused, with exceptional influencing skills; excellent organizational, multi-tasking, presentation and time-management skills.
• Passion for social enterprise, development of people and environmental benefits.