Software Engineer - BlueSPACE Africa Technologies

Position: Software Developer - Full Stack

Location: In person - Full Time (Accra)

Salary Description: Competitive

What you have to do:

• Development of new features and platform architecture
• Designing the REST API
• Integration with third-party services using API
• Code refactoring and optimization
• Scaling the project for growing loads
• Participation in the product study together with the team
• Code Review of Other Team Members
• Database Query Optimization

Skills & Experience required :

• Experience in PHP development from 3 years and on frameworks (Laravel) and on bare PHP 7+
• Experience with relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL; Experience in writing SQL queries and their optimization
• Teamwork experience (Git, code review, issue tracker)
• Redis
• Linux, Docker
• Ability to solve complex problems, make the right architectural decisions, make a task assessment close to reality
• Great if you have a DevOps experience
• Excellent knowledge and experience with most of the technologies listed above
• A clear understanding of how the architecture of the web application is arranged, an understanding of the principles of operation of its individual components
• Understanding how the HTTP request lifecycle works
• Experience in building REST API
• Understanding solid and OOP principles
• Experience in creating high-load systems in zero downtime conditions
• Understand how to build an efficient, scalable database architecture.
• Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL (writing complex queries; understanding EXPLAIN; optimizing slow queries without changing the database structure; changing the schemas of large tables without downtime, etc.)
• Knowledge of Python and its frameworks is desirable (Django)
• Scrum, Azure, GCP, and AWS certifications would be a plus