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Senior Backend Engineer at Autochek Africa


Autochek Africa is an Automotive Technology development company that builds solutions aimed at enabling and enhancing commerce within the automotive sector. We focus on solutions that improve access to Auto loans, quality maintenance / aftersales services, warranty solutions, and transactional marketplaces. We are operational in West and East Africa and we also have developed a partner-led retail footprint with over 500 service centers.



About the job


We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will work as part of a team, and help in designing, developing, and delivering the technology and applications that totally powers every aspect of the business from driver onboarding and registration to real time maintenance and analytics, and also be a representative and ambassador for the team across the company as well as to external stakeholders.


We’re looking for folks with an interest in building products and tools, comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. You’ll be building customer-facing products that will drive direct business impact and shape our long-term technical vision with a high-quality bar .You’ll have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the best software experience to help companies grow. You’ll be encouraged to be metric and data-driven and to think creatively to help Autochek scale and get prepared for the new markets we are about to enter.

Requirements



  • 4+ years of overall development experience which ideally includes working with a dynamic programming language

  • Excellent Documentation skills

  • A lot of experience working with RESTful APIs for data access

  • Experience integrating ExpressJS (NodeJS) or Python (Django) & PostgreSQL Database

  • Extensive experience in javascript programming and modern frameworks like ExpressJS or Django

  • Experience integrating with AWS services and good understanding of Github Actions

  • Understanding and experience of container services e.g Docker and Kubernetes

  • Understanding of SQL and database technology such as Postgres / MongoDB

  • Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CD (Continuous delivery)

  • Great Communicator : Ability to work independently on assigned tasks while keeping stakeholders informed of progress, setbacks, and updated timelines

  • KPIs that will be measured after you start

  • Code quality

  • Availability, maintainability and scalability of applications built

  • Defects / bugs found in production code

  • Response time to issue resolution

  • Testing quality and coverage


Benefits



  • Agile work culture

  • Competitive pay structure

  • Performance Bonus

  • Flexi work




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