Black Pen Recruitment

Our client, an American based remote company, is looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer located within Zimbabwe, to join their exciting remote team. They are one of the first movers in bringing Cryptocurrency to the masses in Africa and the Middle East.

The idea candidates are ones that have previously worked within a FinTech/ Crypto company and who are clear communicators who are highly self-motivated; eager to collaborate, exchange knowledge, apply new skills and pitch in for whatever the team needs to ship new code.

The company’s current technology includes NodeJS, VueJS, Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, AWS SQS, AWS IoT, AWS EC2, ELK Stack, Jest, Flutter and more.

Type of person: Critical thinking, strong in your domain and can engage and lead your dream in some of the largest most intimidating companies in the world

Job Type: Work from home position

Salary: Salary + Benefits

Requirements:

+5 years of work experience as a Backend Engineer/Developer

Strong experience working in AWS or other similar cloud architecture (Google Cloud/Azure)

In-depth experience with Node.js, possessing broad knowledge of JavaScript in general and Node.js internals

Strong experience in Serverless Framework

State Machine and Step Function experience advantageous

You have experience driving technical projects, prioritising work, identifying dependencies, facilitating technical decisions and cross-functional team discussions.

You're experienced in designing and implementing application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, maintainable, and performant.

You can work independently while also putting an emphasis on mentorship of those around you.

You're comfortable collaborating closely with product, stakeholders and sponsors, providing estimates or product ideas that will influence your team's roadmap.

You're a thoughtful communicator—some teams are partially or fully distributed so effective written communication is key.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and own the architecture and implementation of features

Provide guidance and assistance in helping knock down walls and a clear path towards work completion

Lead a group of engineers and cross-functional team members in the implementation of new and existing features

Provide clear and concise communication regarding feature development statuses to the team and stakeholders

Plan, supervise and manage releases for the work the squad is performing

Empower team members - including other developers as well as Technical Support - through technical mentoring, contributions to the team's documentation, libraries, and providing automation for manual tasks where appropriate

Define and adhere to internal coding standards, development processes, and design best practices

Ensure quality by performing thorough testing and leveraging peer reviews for your work and the work of cross-functional teams

Help scope, estimate, and prioritise work

Embrace and demonstrate our values: humility, creativity, and independence

Write and maintain clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for the future (and present) of the company’s platform

Team:

Exude your upbeat energy and enthusiasm each and every day to motivate your team to be the best they can in every aspect of what they do

Celebrate the success of others by recognizing the contributions of committed team members and their achievements

Align your values with the Mission, Vision and Values of the Client

Be a role model for the Client’s organizational culture by creating a positive impact at every touchpoint with people, with every word you say or put in print and everything you do

Communicate in a fashion that is respectful and well understood

Collaborate with your peers to collectively think of innovative ideas that drive business through technology

Build and utilize working relationships with internal business partners across the organization and external business contacts

Do we spark your interest? The send us your CV today!

We are looking forward to hearing from you!