Senior Backend Engineer

About NEP Apps:

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.

About the role:

NEP Apps is hiring for the Senior Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Remote position. Most of the team is in Accra, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

What you'll do:

• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Perks and benefits:

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

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

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