Back End Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Integration of web and mobile front-end clients with server-side logic
  • Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
  • Writing documentation for APIs developed
  • Design and implementation of low-latency, high availability and performance applications
  • Implementation of security and data protection
  • Integration of data storage solutions

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar.
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript and Python/PHP/Java
  • Knowledge of NodeJS and ExpressJS is required
  • Additional experience in at leaset one of these: Python Django/Flask, PHP Laravel and/or Java Spring Boot is required
  • Must have deep understanding of RESTful API programming
  • Understanding of sessions, cookies, authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
  • Must have experience with SQL and NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, MySQL, Postgresql, PostGIS, etc)
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Alster Limited has been established as a software development entity in West Africa with our head office in Accra, Ghana and satellite offices in Lagos, Nigeria and Monrovia, Liberia. Our traditional business model is based on the accomplishments of similar software entities in the United States. We are currently on a trajectory to becoming the most successful software business in the entire West Africa with our year-on-year growth surpassing 900% mark in the just ended 2018 fiscal year. As a company we have one vision: we see ourselves at the forefront of paperless revolution. In the short term, we want to be the go address for any business that want to organize itself to meet the demands of a digitalized world. In the long term, we see ourselves to becoming the greatest software company that has done so much for the African people in terms of quickening the pace of electronic business and our common economic transformation agenda.