Vacancy: Senior API Developer

Company Profile

Insyt is a leading data solution provider for medium to large scale surveys in Africa. Insyt offers powerful tablet-based data collection services to agencies seeking to target and serve rural communities. With powerful off-grid technology, and a well-established methodology for deploying teams in the most remote communities, Insyt helps agencies convert from paper, thus reducing cost, time and errors in targeting beneficiaries.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain APIs and tools that power Esoko's suit of applications.


• Communicate your designs to fellow engineers.


• Understand the data that power our applications and be able to propose appropriate data models for new features.


• Build new services from scratch, as well as maintain existing applications.


• Provide secure and seamless integration of Esoko's applications to our SaaS partners.


• Committed to good engineering practice of testing, logging, alerting and deployment processes.

Required Skills or Experience

• Expertise in any of the following languages (Nodejs, Java, python)


• Experience with developing scalable and secure APIs


• Strong knowledge of postgres db, mongodb and elastic search, rabbitmq


• Strong knowledge of microservice architecture


• Good knowledge of application monitoring


• Experience with Docker Ecosystem


• familiarity with techniques to identify slow queries and debugging


• Good knowledge of Linux platform


• 3+ Years of Development experience building backend solutions


• Experience building financial system is a plus


• Bachelor’s Degree