We are looking for a highly capable Full Stack Software Engineer to join our team. You will be collaborating with our software engineers, designing both front-end and back-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions.

Our desired skills for this role include skilled and experience on the backend  NodeJS, Express, Apollo server, GraphQL and frontend VueJS, Vuex and Pug. Experience on DevOps is also required, familiarity with Google Cloud Platform will be an added advantage. To ensure success as a software engineer, you should possess extensive knowledge of the above and experience in a similar role. An accomplished software engineer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between our servers and end-users..

✅ What we look for in you

• 5+ years of web development experience, using Node.js

• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.

• Strong experience using Express for RESTful API development

• Strong experience working with Non Relational databases – MongoDb, Firebase, Redis,  or other graph databases

• Designing and consuming GraphQL APIs and working with Apollo server

• Proficient in Git and Git Flow, pull/merge request and code reviews

• Knowledge of  Devops – CI/CD processes etc.

• Extensive knowledge in Google Cloud Platform infrastructure

• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as VueJS and CSS3, Pug.

• Experience with automated testing platforms, integration and unit tests

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills at all levels of an organization and within a strong technical environment

• Superb interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.

🛠 What you’ll be expected to do

• Collaborate with CTO/Lead engineer and the rest of the team to iterate on the design and implementation of product

• Design and implement web applications using (HTML, SASS, Pug, Nodejs, Expressjs, MongoDB, Vuejs, Firebase, Google App Engine)

• Design and implement REST APIs powered by Google App Engine

• Translate designs, wireframes, and business requirements into high-quality code

• Own entire features from specification to shipping

• Work effectively with a high degree of autonomy, within a collaboratively minded team

• Work closely with the team on backend development tasks to build features and ship experiments

• Build efficient and reusable front-end systems and abstractions

• Find and address bugs and performance issues

• Participate in design and code reviews

• Identify and communicate front-end best practices

• Design and Implement Blockchain technology (Services, libraries, Algorithms) using Javascript

• Be a steward and influencer of our early engineering culture.

More about our employees and values

We’re a small team that is obsessed with solving problems for our customers. We’re all spread across Kenya, Nigeria, Europe and the Caribbean. It’s all love at Raise, and we’re constantly pushing each other to raise the bar and show excellence in our work. Our mindset is that we’re a team building Raise, but Raise is building us. Our values are:

• Customer obsession: we’re here to solve problems for our customers, to make their lives easier.

• Growth mindset: every challenge is an opportunity to grow.

• Financial independence: being free from financial stress is the freedom to dream and build.

• Transparency & ownership: we stay accountable to ourselves and take ownership over projects, we celebrate wins and learn from failures.