Senior Software Engineer

Founded as a farmers' mutual in 2002, the company is now one of the larger mutual insurers in Nigeria. We started in 2002 and have grown to about 1,500 people. Continuing education credits are tracked and reimbursed.

Role overview

Spicebush Insurance is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer role on our operations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. We work hybrid out of Lagos, usually three days in, two days remote.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL

Nice to have

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Contributions to open source projects

Salary range: ₦1,500,000-₦1,950,000 a month

Benefits

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

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 Spicebush Insurance Ltd.