Backend Developer at Powered by People (PBP)
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Vacancy title:
Backend Developer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Computer & IT ]

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Powered by People (PBP)

Deadline of this Job:
01 October 2021  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:
Job title: Backend Developer

Over view
Powered By People is a wholesale platform - a mobile-first, distributed manufacturing system offering online tools, financing solutions, and a B2B marketplace to the creative manufacturing and handmade sector.
Global retail has moved online. Driven by social media, consumers now have more choices than ever. They are rewarding socially responsible brands that deliver authentic, sustainable products. To stay relevant, retailers are seeking trusted alternative channels like PBP Market through which they can source more exclusive, differentiated offerings for customers that want to discover a new story.
Poised to meet new customer trends, Powered By People is ushering the growth of creative manufacturing into mainstream markets. Growing at 20% annually, Creative Manufacturing - characterized by differentiated products, in small batches, with continuous release - is on track to reach 1Trillion dollars by 2023, and yet we believe it can be an even larger share of the $25 Trillion dollar global retail market.
At PBP we are the bridge that empowers mainstream retailers, designers, and brands to source these diverse and exclusive products from around the world - across home décor & accessories, fashion, and beauty products, some of the fastest-growing sectors in retail.
PBP provides makers with digital market access with a differentiated offering enabled by supply chain technology and financial services. The landscape for B2B marketplaces has changed, we are building the future of retail to be more digital, more diverse, and more transparent.

Join us!
We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join our Engineering team. We’re building software products with a variety of technologies on the backend (Javascript, Python), and mostly doing React (with ES6) front-ends.

The Role
You will build and extend the backend architecture to support new features, and support the fast-growing user base.
You will be working alongside other developers in building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and performant microservices platform.

Responsibilities
• Design and implement features as defined in the Product roadmap
• Review design documents, perform code reviews and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams
• Collaborate and support cross-functional teams (Product, and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
• Continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solving
• problems using the most appropriate technology
• Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules

Requirements
• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience
• 3+ years coding in one or more of the following languages: Python (Django, flask), Javascript (Nodejs, )
• Developed and launched large scale consumer applications with the backend on Cloud infrastructure (AWS) using microservices architecture
• Expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web use
• Expert proficiency in Agile development process
• Worked with a remote & distributed team
• Excellent ability to prioritize and communicate in a fast-paced environment
• Strong relational database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)Strong
non-relational database experience.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related fields

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

 

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 01 October 2021
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 21-09-2021
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 21-09-2021
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 21-09-2065
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