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Lead Engineer - Fullstack, Software Development at NewGlobe

NewGlobeLagos, Nigeria Software Development
Full Time
NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services,

About The Role

  • We are looking for a full time Lead Full-Stack Engineer to head up one of our cross-functional software development teams, which builds the software that powers and improves our competitive advantage. In addition to being technically excellent and an individual contributor, a Team Lead is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of their project (looking across all disciplines and technology stacks) and for ensuring that their team is following agreed norms and processes.
  • This person should be familiar with design and implementation issues specific to a data driven, highly scalable environments and be able to handle such issues with flexibility and ingenuity. The ideal candidate will have a strong customer focus, a proven track record of delivering high-quality products in a continuous delivery environment, and an appreciation for clean and simple code.

What You Will Do

  • Design, implement, and support new products and features, including overseeing the technical design and architecture of projects
  • Grow and lead an software development team of 5-7 engineers
  • Collaborate with project sponsors and product designers to elaborate requirements and facilitate trade-offs that maximise value
  • Analyse and improve the overall software architecture, with a focus on maintainability and scalability
  • Mentor and develop members of the team, from daily interactions to broader professional development goals

What You Should Have

  • A BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • 7+ years of enterprise software development experience
  • 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams
  • Comfort recommending and advocating for enterprise architectural best practices for highly-available, scalable, and reliable implementations; but also the experience to take on technical debt where appropriate
  • Enterprise-level experience with continuous delivery practises and tools
  • Advocacy of test-driven development (TDD) and/or behaviour driven development (BDD)
  • Experience with pair-programming and other XP practises a plus
  • Expertise in several of the following areas (and interested in learning about the rest):
    • Web services and API design, especially in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem
    • Android applications, especially “offline-first”
    • JavaScript Web Applications, especially Progressive Web Applications
    • Data engineering - data pipelines that cleanse, classify, and aggregate data sets
    • Highly scalable architectures (e.g. CQRS, Event Sourcing, queues, circuit breakers, etc.)
    • Monitoring in all its forms - error monitoring, synthetic monitoring, performance monitoring, user monitoring, etc.
    • Security and identity management - OAuth, penetration testing, software supply chain
    • Cloud and Hybrid deployment models
    • Databases and ORMs - esp. MS SQL Server/T-SQL (and EF, Dapper, etc.); but also other forms of persistence
  • Experience in a lean delivery environment and understand not only the mechanics, but also the underlying motivations
  • NewGlobe uses primarily .NET (server-side), Vue.JS (web apps) and Kotlin (Android native), so experience in these toolchains is preferable; however, NewGlobe also values developers with diverse experience, so serious exposure to other languages and ecosystems (e.g. NodeJS, Ruby, functional languages, NoSQL DBs) is a bonus
  • Ability to function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
  • Interest in open source projects – familiarity with OSS projects is a plus; contributions to open source projects is a big plus

What We Offer

  • The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
  • Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
  • Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
  • The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects

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