Senior Software Engineer

@ Jobs for Humanity

About Verto

At Verto, we're on a mission to democratise global finance and empower businesses in Emerging Markets to reach the world. Founded by British-Nigerian entrepreneurs Ola Oyetayo and Anthony Oduu, our core focus is Africa, where we bridge the gap between emerging and developed markets. We are backed by prominent investors like Y-Combinator, Quona, and MEVP and have received notable accolades.

Role Overview

This role significantly impacts Verto by driving active development, designing robust RESTful APIs, and building highly scalable web applications and cloud services while contributing to system architecture and prototyping new ideas.

About the Role

We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Engage in active development assignments.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs.
• Collaborate with a team to develop scalable web applications and services.
• Contribute to the overall system architecture.
• Prototype and implement new ideas.

Qualifications

What You Need:

• 4+ years of professional experience in object-oriented languages.
• Significant experience with NodeJS.
• Knowledge of modern web application libraries like Angular.
• Experience with scalable distributed cloud applications on AWS or similar.
• Strong skills in MySQL and relational databases.
• Excellent communication and articulation skills.

Best If You Have:

• Experience with the MEAN/MERN stack.
• Fintech industry experience.
• Experience in early or growing stage start-ups and product companies.
• Awareness of modern trends in distributed software application development.
• Experience with tools like AWS Codebuild, git, npm, Visual Studio Code, Serverless framework, Swagger, Angular, Flutter, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, Redis, SQS, and Kafka.

Culture at Verto

We are a community of individuals who care about our craft, collaborate purposefully, and enjoy our journey together.

General & Additional Perks

• Health & Life insurance, flexible work schedules, generous leave policy.
• Gym membership, free lunch, car lease policy and professional development budget.

Interview Process

The process includes a chat with the talent team, an online assessment round, and two interview rounds (technical + culture).

Key skills/competency

• Senior Software Engineer
• RESTful APIs
• Fullstack
• NodeJS
• Angular
• AWS
• Cloud Services
• MySQL
• Fintech
• Scalable Web Apps