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11 Sep 2023

Senior Backend Engineer at Tushop

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Job Description

Tushop is a venture-backed technology-enabled company operating in Kenya. Our mission is to strengthen the welfare of communities by giving them more value with their groceries. We do so by aggregating communities’ demand for groceries to help them access wholesale prices and provide convenient delivery to end-customers. Additionally, we work with Community Leaders, who earn an additional income for the work that they do in their communities.

Your role:

Reports to: Engineering Lead

The Senior Backend Engineer builds and extends Tushop’s backend architecture to support new launches, new features, and a fast-growing user base. As a technologist and a leader, the Senior Backend Engineer pushes the team toward building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant e-commerce platform. The Senior Backend Engineer follows and improves upon Tushop’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tushop’s mission and business objectives. This is a technical leadership role within Tushops technical track. You will report to the Engineering Lead and collaborate cross-functionally with all Tushop teams.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement features aligned with the Product roadmap.
  • Conduct thorough design document reviews, perform code reviews, and provide input on implementation decisions made by other technical teams.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Procurement, and Finance) to deliver scalable software solutions.
  • Continuously enhance our codebase with clean and efficient code while applying the most suitable technologies to solve challenges.
  • Strengthen the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules.
  • Elevate monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to enable proactive improvements in availability and response times.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of Backend and Frontend Engineers to build/extend complex modules, including remote team members.

The profile we’re likely to hire:

  • Possesses a minimum of 4+ years of backend software engineering experience
  • Ideally 4+ years of coding experience in NodeJS
  • Demonstrates a track record of developing and launching large-scale consumer applications on Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure)
  • Holds expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web applications
  • Exhibits mastery in Agile development processes
  • Excels in prioritization and communication within a fast paced environment
  • Brings strong expertise in both relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL) and non-relational databases (Firebase, MongoDB)
  • Previous experience at a tech startup is a valuable plus.


Method of Application

Submit your CV and Application on Company Website : Click Here

Closing Date : 30 September. 2023





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