Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

• Design, architect, and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services and APIs for our core educational platform.
• Write high-quality, testable, and efficient code that powers the user experience for students and educators.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and designers to conceptualize, build, and deploy new user-facing features.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and system design.
• Participate in and lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in building robust backend services using Python and Django.
• Proven experience with infrastructure orchestration and cloud platforms (especially AWS, Terraform, and Docker/Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB).
• Solid understanding of software testing practices (TDD/BDD) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Competitive net salary (NGN 1,800,000/month) with stock options.
• 100% remote work flexibility with a co-working space stipend.
• Comprehensive health and dental insurance.
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO) policy and paid parental leave.
• Annual home-office hardware budget and conference allowance.

We are an education company building a new kind of university targeted at the African region. Miva, a subsidiary of the uLesson Group, is a Pan-African Distance e-Learning University that is built on a couple of beliefs:

Firstly, we believe that the traditional brick-and-mortar approach to tertiary education is no longer a viable option for serving learners on the African continent. This approach will not provide the capacity and efficacy for the people of the region. We are building a university experience that leverages excellent academic talent (wherever it is to be found) and digital technologies to create a new, fresh, more efficacious and more accessible tertiary experience.

Our second belief is that this new tertiary experience must not only meet but exceed the existing way of doing things in terms of quality, efficacy and preparing learners for the future.

We are uncompromising in these beliefs and this is why we are excited to speak to you.

To prepare people for opportunity and improve society through education.

Empathetic. Truthful. Innovative. The uLesson Group.

• Empathetic (Always seek to be aware of the feelings and thoughts of colleagues, customers and society)
• Truthful (Always be honest)
• Innovative (Always look at things from a different perspective)

Experience

• Minimum 6+ years

Qualifications

• Bachelors

• BSc

• Masters

• MSc

• PhD

• Skills we look for

• Python

• Django

• AWS

• SQL

• RESTful APIs

• System Design

• Terraform

• Docker

• CI/CD

• Agile Methodology