Backend Engineer

NEP Apps is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote within Ghana. The team meets in Accra once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

Day to day

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

Minimum qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Nice to have

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts
• Prior work breaking up a monolith

What you get

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave
• Stock options
• Data and airtime allowance
• 13th month salary

Company overview

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2013, we now have 70 employees.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at NEP Apps.