Software Engineer II

We have an immediate opening for a Software Engineer II in Dakar. Our operations team is six engineers and we're adding one more. Most of the work is backend services, with some internal tooling. Hybrid. You will need to be in Dakar at least two days per week.

Your responsibilities:

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic

Skills and experience:

• 2-4 years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up

Benefits:

XOF 550,000-XOF 650,000 per month

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave

The company:

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Relocation support is available for the right candidate.

Start: Immediately.

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