About this role
Senior Backend Engineer
We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of backend services and APIs, maintain integrations, and ensure reliable, secure data and publishing pipelines for a newsroom environment.
Responsibilities
- Service ownership: take over and own the backend services and APIs handed over from the partner.
- Integrations: maintain the integrations between the platform, the CMS and the internal tools.
- Pipeline reliability: keep data flows, the publishing pipeline and third-party integrations running reliably.
- Security: own authentication and authorisation across the CMS and internal tools, secrets management, audit logging, dependency hygiene, and protections specific to a newsroom such as embargoed content and unpublished stories.
Requirements / Knowledge & skills:
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Server-side depth: strong server-side experience, for example Node.js, Python or similar.
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API & data: experience designing and maintaining APIs and databases.
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Operate inherited systems: comfort inheriting and operating a vendor-built backend in production.
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Traffic you did not choose: experience handling a load event and able to explain what saturated first and why.
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Note: The posting specifies remote work in Nigeria with an on-site requirement for launch week.