.NET Backend Software Engineer at Liberty Afrika Technologies Limited

Responsibilities

• You will design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on security, scalability, high availability and low latency.
• Communicate & collaborate cross-functionally across various teams, organizations, internal and external stakeholders to drive engineering efforts and provide technical advisory.
• Explore and evaluate third-party or in-house solutions, technologies to solve complex process or product problems.
• Refine functional requirements and develop technical specifications.
• Writing clean and testable code bases and ensure compliance with specified guidelines.
• Be part of discussions on architectural design and solutions, continuously striving to improve customer experience and efficiency.
• Generate technical documentation to communicate architectural and design decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor and/or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer on medium or large-scale distributed system.
• 2+ years of experience of .NET Backend development (C# and .NET Core) and shipping quality code to production.
• Solid conceptual knowledge of design patterns and language agnostic design experience.
• Commercial experience with microservice and REST APIs development (gRPC is a plus).
• Proficiency with relational databases (SQL Server or Postgresql) and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in queue-based systems like RabbitMQ, MSMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS is preferred.
• Previous experience with AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud providers is nice to haves
• Test driven development mindset and strong discipline of writing extensive tests for every production code ship.
• An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/technology.
• Ruthless prioritization, excellent collaborator, communicator and accountable of your own responsibilities.