Software Engineers at Youverify

Youverify is a leading provider of digital identity management and supports innovative Private security companies, Government agencies, FinTech companies, and top tier banks that manage KYC, AML in a safe and regulatory compliant manner.

Youverify’s mission is to be the most reliable source of identity, address and background data verification. Since been peer-selected by cohort members of Village Capital PayPal Fintech 2018, Youverify has continued to shift the verification landscape with our product offerings. As a company that provides modern and compliant identity and address verification services for government, global enterprises and start-ups, Youverify know first-hand how difficult it may be for businesses to verify the identity of their customers, staff and partners and we want to help to make this process as simple and easy as possible. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing and product-driven environment using new technologies and frameworks as we continue building our identity verification solution.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for Software Engineers to join the Technology team to build the next-generation applications to solving complex problems and work with a world-class engineering and product team to deliver innovative products for our users.

Responsibilities
What a typical week may look like at Youverify:

• Design and implement new features and enhancements using NodeJS
• Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process
• Design, innovate and solve complex problems inherent in operating a high scale classifieds platform
• Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process
• Interact with product owners, partners and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements
• Debugging and Improvement of existing systems
• Expand our micro-services architecture
• Management of all 3rd party tool relationships and integrations from a technical aspect. i.e. SMS providers, Email, APIs, Finance tools, Marketing tools, Business tools, AWS etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• 4+ years experience working with NodeJS
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries — Mocha, Jest etc
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Experience having worked with at least one Web Framework for your language of choice
• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
• Familiarity with at least one web server technology — (ex: Apache, Nginx)
• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool — Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI, Github Action
• Working knowledge of gRPC and protocol buffers
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker), Caching (Redis), API gateway (KrakenD), orchestration (Kubernetes), Distributed tracing (Jaeger), Service mesh (LinkerD) and observability
• Knowledge of microservices (or SOA), Docker, and/or distributed systems.
• Good working knowledge of NoSQL systems (MongoDB, Elastic, Cassandra), Relational Database Systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle), Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ), Kafka
• Experience with managing and deploying applications on AWS/DigitalOcean/GCP.

Job Title: Software Engineer (Frontend)
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for Software Engineers to join the Technology team to build the next-generation applications to solving complex problems and work with a world-class engineering and product team to deliver innovative products for our users.

Responsibilities
What a typical week may look like at Youverify:

• Design and implement new features and enhancements using Vue.js
• Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process
• Design, innovate and solve complex problems inherent in operating a high scale classifieds platform
• Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process
• Interact with product owners, partners and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements
• Debugging and Improvement of existing systems
• Building modular and reusable components and libraries

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 3+ years experience working with Vue.js
• Comfortable working within agile methodologies and experienced in task estimation and time management
• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries — Mocha, Jest etc
• Highly proficient with the JavaScript language and its modern ES6+ syntax and features
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Highly proficient with Vue.js framework and its core principles such as components, reactivity, and the virtual DOM
• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
• Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including Sass
• Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel, Webpack, and Git
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker
• Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs
• Understanding of server-side rendering and its benefits and use cases
• Knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code
• Experience with Frameworks such as Tailwind CSS framework, Element UI etc.

Job Title: Software Engineer (DevOps)
Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for Software Engineers to join the Technology team to build the next-generation applications to solving complex problems and work with a world-class engineering and product team to deliver innovative products for our users.

Responsibilities
What a typical week may look like at Youverify:

• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience deploying engineering applications for a large corporation
• Professional work experience in team building and project organization
• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
• Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
• Configuration and managing databases such as Mongo, MySql, Cassandra etc
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform etc
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services, securing servers and various types of testing
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
• Demonstrated project development and leadership skills
• Current understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
• Advanced education and application of business analysis techniques and strategy
• Experience working together with teams from several departments to facilitate the orderly execution of a proposed project plan
• Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV including the link to their GitHub profile and portfolio to: [email protected] using the job position title eg: "Software Engineer (Backend)" as the subject of the email.

Note

• Candidates must be based in Lagos and open for hybrid operation.
• Only Shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.

Application Deadline  31st October, 2021.