Senior Backend Engineer

4 days ago

Ikeja Lagos Nigeria Chowdeck Full time ₦40,000 - ₦80,000 per year

Who we are

Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service for Africa. We help food vendors deliver meals seamlessly while providing customers with a platform to order meals from their favourite restaurants. In between the consumers and vendors sits our riders, who are the superstars of Chowdeck.

At Chowdeck, we unite people through innovative meal-ordering and delivery technology, putting smiles across faces and ensuring satisfaction in bellies.

Where you come in

We're looking for an experienced Backend Engineer at Chowdeck who'll be responsible for building the API infrastructure that powers our food delivery service on multiple fronts. The customer app, where people order food; our vendors' app, used by restaurant owners and the Rider's app, used by delivery drivers. Our tech stack consists of NodeJS, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Google Cloud, and other technologies.

We're looking for curious, empathetic, and kind people who want to continue their careers at a fast-growing tech startup that cares deeply about personal and professional development.

In this role, you'll be required to:

  • Design, build and maintain features and improvements on our APIs, services, and systems.
  • Solve technical problems of different scopes and complexity, including performance improvements
  • Debug and fix production issues across services
  • Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
  • Work with engineers across the company to build and maintain new features at a large scale.
  • Recognise impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions, including implementing better standards, tooling, and processes

You're perfect for the Senior Backend Engineer role if you:

  • Have significant professional experience building large, highly available systems and experience as a team or technical lead.
  • Have fundamental knowledge of Node, JavaScript, and MySQL
  • Can write code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, testability and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
  • Can think through product requirements to come up with ways of quickly solving problems without compromising quality
  • Care deeply about speed, performance, and quality application design
  • Can communicate what you're working on to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Have a deep and unrelenting focus on customer satisfaction and experience

Beyond the paycheck, Chowdeck employees get:

  • Full medical coverage
  • Smart, kind colleagues invested in your growth
  • Housing Assistance
  • Transport Assistance
  • Lunch allowance

Chowdeck is an equal-opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We're committed to providing employees with a work environment that is progressive and open-minded. Our employment philosophy is to hire the best people and empower them to do the best work of their lives. Employment decisions are based on business needs and individual merit without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, gender, or age.

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