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Software Engineer at Engie Africa

Engie AfricaLagos, Nigeria Software Development
Full Time
ENGIE is a leading global energy company that builds its businesses around a model based on responsible growth to take on energy transition challenges. We provide individuals, cities and businesses innovative solutions based on our expertise in 4 key sectors: independent power production, natural gas, renewable energy and energy efficiency services to a low-carbon economy: access to sustainable energy, climate-change mitigation and adaptation and the rational use of resources.

Job Purpose/Mission

  • We are looking for a talented, self-starting software engineer to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets.
  • This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact.
  • Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the bi-weekly software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations (such as technical debt, feasibility at scale ….)
  • Take requirements and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with minimal to no supervision.
  • Develop complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs.
  • Participate and contribute to architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, assumptions, etc...
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance
  • provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g due to bugs or performance problems, on-call)

Experience And Skills
Required:

  • At least 3 years of relevant experience
  • Programming language proficiency in Ruby and mastery of Rails framework
  • Good knowledge of object relational mappers (and their implementation design patterns), No SQL, Mysql and storage options
  • Strong knowledge of design patterns and OOP practices, TDD
  • Strong API development and documentation experience
  • Experience using observability and monitoring tools
  • Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
  • Experience with git: GitHub/Gitlab based source code management and deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Desired:

  • Javascript and typescript proficiency with strong knowledge of one JS framework
  • HTML4/5, CSS3, AJAX, Bootstrap along with strong knowledge of DOM
  • Strong software engineering and architectural patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)
  • Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in cloud context: elastic cache, distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, clustering
  • Good experience on high availability, observability and structured logging
  • API design (REST, GraphQL,Apollo...)
  • Knowledge of container and container orchestration
  • Web and application Server backend management is a strong advantage and basic Linux server system administration.
  • Good knowledge of web application security with standards such as OWASP
  • Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2 ,RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions

Qualifications :

  • Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)

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