Our client is set to hire a Senior Python/Django Back-end Engineer.

 As a Back-end Engineer, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features about the back-end. You will also be expected to be a role model for coding standards, tools, platforms and other best practices for the back-end team.

Location

Located in Nairobi, you would benefit from working with a remarkable team within great culture. You will play an integral part in the development of the organization’s future program in Kenya.

Duration

Full-time

The Role

  • Leading the design and development of back-end features and components
  • Collaborating with other engineers in API design and development
  • Scaling the back-end architecture and codebase
  • Reducing the level of technical debt of the back-end codebase
  • Stewarding technical standards and quality
  • Interface with product and other functional teams and their leadership
  • Provide peer code review
  • Analyze and assess code with an insistence on quality and reliability

The candidate

  • Demonstrate experience previously in Back-end in the engineering and development field.
  • Strong communication skills to ensure you can liaise cross-department and build good working relationships.
  • BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
  • 3 – 5 years of relevant work experience
  • Experience building enterprise level SaaS platforms
  • Experience with our stack: Python, Django, ElasticSearch, OAuth, Postgres, Redis, Redshift, AWS hosting.
  • Experience working on back-end systems at scale, using technologies like MySQL, Django, Redis, Python, RESTFul APIs, etc.
  • Experience building and deploying complex but well architected, maintainable, and testable application back-ends
  • Strong object-oriented programming and test driven development skills
  • Great communication skills, interacting with development, testing and product team members
  • Experience working as part of an agile team and knowledge of agile process

 

How to apply

Send your applications to joseph.alulu@hallmarkrecruitment.com, and quote the job title in the subject of your email.