Senior Fullstack (Back End Heavy) Engineer

About us:

Tushop’s mission is to reduce the cost of living for Africans, together. It’s made up of an impact-driven team striving to build something of value in this world. We persistently dream big, yet are energized by the small.
As a social commerce company, we seek to make food and groceries cheaper for our customers, while adding convenience, and helping farmers and manufacturers to sell their goods and grow.

Tushop is at an early but exciting stage – supported by a cadre of eminent investors. What we do has great
impact: we help farmers and suppliers make products people want; we empower stay-at-home moms without formal employment to make incomes on the side and feel pride with how they support their communities and neighbors; and we help young entrepreneurs who run cyber cafes, beauty shops, and kiosks to provide more value to their customers. We help anyone who buys food to be able to do so more cheaply and conveniently.
And we help our own employees learn what they want to learn, build what they want to build, and become
who they want to become (and get paid doing so!)

About you:

The Senior Backend Engineer builds and extends Tushop’s backend architecture to support new launches,
new features, and a fast-growing user base. As a technologist and a leader, the Senior Backend Engineer
pushes the team toward building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant e-commerce platform.
The Senior Backend Engineer follows and improves upon Tushop’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tushop’s mission and business objectives. This is a technical leadership role within Tushop’s
technical track.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement features aligned with the Product roadmap.
• Conduct thorough design document reviews, perform code reviews, and provide input on implementation decisions made by other technical teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Procurement, and Finance) to deliver highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant e-commerce platforms and software solutions.
• Continuously enhance our codebase with clean and efficient code while applying the most suitable technologies to solve challenges.
• Strengthen the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules.
• Elevate monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to enable proactive improvements in availability and response times.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Backend and Frontend Engineers to build/extend complex modules, including remote team members.
• Preparing reports on backend software development initiatives for management decision-making purposes.

The profile we’re likely to hire:

• Demonstrates a track record of developing and launching large-scale consumer applications on Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure)
• Ideally 4+ years of coding experience in NodeJS
• Holds expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web applications
• Exhibits mastery in Agile development processes
• Excels in prioritization and communication within a fast-paced environment
• Brings strong expertise in both relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL) and non-relational databases (Firebase, MongoDB)
• Growth mindset that challenges the status quo and focus on outside-the-box ideas and solutions; proven ability to manage new ideas, creative solutions, and change in priorities
• High-level written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence others, and to be a joy to work with
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify and prioritize key initiatives and opportunities; exemplary ability to prioritize for efficiencies and impact
• High level of organization and attention to detail
• Ability to work with stakeholders to assess potential risks
• Ability to analyze data and generate meaningful insights to drive continuous improvement.
• Active listening, and presentation skills
• An individual who exemplifies integrity and honesty
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and business needs.
• Previous experience at a tech startup is a plus

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related field from a recognized institution.
• At least 5 years of progressive work experience as a backend software engineer/developer; experience in the e-commerce, retail, FMCG sectors is an added advantage.