About GoLemon

GoLemon is a fast growing, fast paced grocery and home essentials delivery startup operating out of Lagos, Nigeria. We are looking to grow our engineering team with passionate and capable individuals.

Job Description

We are looking for an interesting and gifted mid-level Software Engineer to design, develop and maintain software and services that serves our customers and internal teams. You’ll be working in a cross-functional team along side other engineers.

Your responsibilities will include gathering user requirements, defining system functionality and writing code in various languages, like Java, Python and NodeJs.

Ultimately, the role of the Software Engineer is to build high-quality, scalable, innovative and fully performant software that complies with coding standards and technical design.

Other responsibilities

• Driving engineering initiatives from conception to completion
• Improving the technical standing of GoLemon by reducing technical debt and improving engineering productivity and processes
• Implementing, maintaining and improving technical processes to prevent service regression
• Identify issues via testing, monitoring and alerting, and take responsibility for fixing such issues
• Communicating and coordinating with stakeholders across various teams
• Develop new APIs, systems and services and maintain existing ones
• Respond with the right amount of urgency to issues escalated, or bugs reported
• Ensure your code is well-tested and covers most practical edge cases

What it takes to succeed at this role

• Have strong design and problem solving skills
• Are innovative, curious, push technical boundaries, and are excited to solve problems
• Communicate in a clear and helpful manner
• Can self manage, set an implementation schedule and manage communication with team members and stakeholders