Responsibilities

• You will play a key role in designing, developing and maintaining the backend system that powers our e-commerce and payment platform
• You will work closely with our front-end engineers to connect data pipelines to our user-facing platform and other presentation layers
• You will tackle technology and data problems – how do we continuously improve our handling, processing, and presentation of data?
• You will develop for scale, building scalable micro-services
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Collaborate with other team members
• Write developer documentation
• Write unit test cases and integration tests
• Document best practices for how to extend our products/features
• Optimise backend services for maximum speed and scalability

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years software development experience
• Strong Javascript/Typescript Knowledge.
• Experience building backend services in NestJS
• API design and implementation experience
• Program mostly in TypeScript and continuously work towards improving your own and your team’s skills
• Proficiency in handling data stored in both relational and non-relational database management systems
• You enjoy reviewing and documenting code, pair programming, and get excited about improving tools and processes
• You’re a proficient communicator and have excellent written and verbal English.
• You have a passion for eCommerce!
• You’re comfortable working remotely
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience in platform engineering work such as creating CI/CD pipelines and understand common deployment patterns
• Experience with Terraform and Vault

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: NestJs (NodeJs/Express)
• Database: MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Github Actions, CircleCI

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Benefits

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Startup experience
• Experience building a product from scratch
• E-commerce experience

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How to Apply

Does this role sound like a good fit? Email us at careers@zaapi.com

• Include the role's title in your subject line.
• Send along your CV and any other links/documents you think we might find relevant!