Platform & Backend Orchestration Engineer

Platform & Backend Orchestration Engineer

Location

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Employment Type Full-time

Work Arrangement On-site

Sector Information Technology & Software

Experience Level Senior (5-8 years)

Application Deadline October 14, 2026

About the Company

AfWS is a forward-thinking technology company operating within Nigeria's dynamic digital ecosystem.

The company is dedicated to developing innovative solutions that connect complex technical capabilities into user-friendly, scalable customer-facing workflows.

AfWS focuses on building robust backend services that power seamless integration and reliable performance for its clients.

The organization emphasizes security, scalability, and operational excellence in its product development and service delivery.

Job Description AfWS is seeking an experienced Platform & Backend Orchestration Engineer to join their team, with a preferred location in Lagos, Nigeria.

This permanent role is central to owning the persistent backend service layer, integrating compiler, model, deployment, and power-control capabilities into secure, reliable, and scalable customer-facing workflows. The position emphasizes API development, orchestration, deployment, validation, and platform integrations.

This is a significant opportunity to shape critical backend infrastructure in a growing technology environment.

Key responsibilities and requirements are described below.

Required Skills

• Backend engineering
• Platform engineering
• Python
• Go
• TypeScript
• Java
• API development
• Asynchronous job orchestration
• Queues
• Database-backed services
• Containerized services
• CI/CD
• Production observability
• Linux
• Infrastructure integration
• Redfish
• BMC
• Device-management APIs
• Secure platform design
• Multi-tenant platforms
• Reliability
• Security
• Production operations
• Ownership
• Documentation
• C/C++
• Rust

Key Responsibilities

• Build and own backend services powering the One-Click customer workflow.
• Develop APIs, job orchestration, queues, artefact management, deployment, validation, and result handling.
• Integrate the platform with SteadGrid for authenticated node-control requests, real-time state, audit, and telemetry.
• Implement role-based access control, tenant isolation, audit logging, and traceability.
• Build reliability features including idempotency, retries, timeouts, and failure handling.
• Develop operational dashboards, support tools, documentation, testing, and observability.
• Support post-launch incident resolution and workflow improvements.
• Collaborate with the CTO/Software Lead, Principal Compiler Architect, and Hardware Platform Architect.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend/platform engineering experience.
• Strong production experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, or Java.
• Experience building APIs, asynchronous job orchestration, queues, and database-backed services.
• Experience with containerised services, CI/CD, and production observability.
• Strong Linux and infrastructure integration experience.
• Familiarity with Redfish, BMC, and/or device-management APIs.
• Experience designing secure, multi-tenant platforms.
• Strong understanding of reliability, security, and production operations.
• Excellent ownership and documentation skills.
• Ability to rapidly absorb and operationalise knowledge from technical teams.
• C/C++ or Rust experience is an advantage where strong backend/platform capability is demonstrated.