MERN Stack Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software applications as required by the organization and its clients. 
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing software applications.
• Analyze and study complex systems requirements. 
  
• Prepare design documentation. 
  
• Understand how data flows within various systems to provide input on requirements for databases to ensure data is organized properly for reporting and analytics. 
  
• Prepare training manuals for users to ensure application ease of use.
• Maintain the software applications to ensure no downtime once they are up and running. 
  
• Participate in proposal writing, client deliverables, and research papers.
• Provide application mockups for presentations for prospects and clients.
• Guide the full lifecycle of software development, including requirements gathering, gap analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, application design, development, testing, and deployment. 
• Help the organization’s customers develop strategies that maximize the value of their data. 
  
• Work with product managers to define the usage requirements, scalability, elasticity, and ultimately the business model of various software solutions.
• Help the company establish thought leadership in the big data space by contributing white papers and technical commentary to the community. 

General Requirements:

• Professional certifications in data management, analytics, or/and software development are an advantage. 
• The relevant experience between 0 – 1 year in a similar role will be an added advantage. 
  
• Experience in business analysis and data management will be an advantage.
  
• Deep expertise and hands-on experience with APIs, Web Application development, and programming languages. 
  
• Programming skills should include but not be limited to HTML, CSS, NodeJS, and ReactJs. 
  
• Knowledge of data modeling, data cleansing, and data enrichment techniques.
• The capacity to develop and document procedures and workflows.
• An understanding of data protection issues. 
  
• Ability to manage multiple projects in the work environment. 
  
• Strong and Soft interpersonal skills and the ability to build mutually supportive relationships with other staff members and clients. 
  
• Expert level is written and verbal communication skills. 
  
• Demonstrated creative approaches to problem-solving with strong feasible scheduling capabilities. 
  
• Willing to place sincerity above personal affiliations to create usable KPIs for short-term detriments to self or team that would be beneficial for all parties including long term. 
  
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high-quality outcomes while creating personal project timelines that can be met personally, through the use of buffer times to give guarantees on due dates for assigned tasks. 
  
• Forward-looking thinker, who actively pursues skill acquisition to enhance company and personal outcomes. 
  

Mandatory Requirements

• Web Design 
• Experience with Sketching 
  
• Experience with Iterative Design 
  
• Experience with a web design platform like Figma or AdobeXD
• Experience Creating User Flows 
  
• Experience building Sitemaps, Wireframes, and Prototypes
• Experience selecting Typography, Color, Imagery and Iconography, Forms, and UI Elements 
  
• Experience with designing Accessible platforms for the physically impaired
• Experience with Client interactions and design revisions

Reactjs Skills 

• Basic Experience with HTML to JSX Conversion 
• Creating Reusable Components with the Props system
• Experiences with State Hooks like use effect, useReducer and useState
• API integration with Axios or an equivalent, including Child to parent communication of requested data and the use of async: await for asynchronous API requests and responses.
• Experience linking Props and the use of context Hook
• Error Correction using the use callback Hook
• Experience with the react-router npm package
• Experience with Material-UI or an equivalent JSS library, Tailwind CSS will also be considered
• Experience with conditional rendering
• Experienced use of the useRef hooks 
• Experience Creating Portals with ReactDOM
• Experience adding Sorting algorithms to State Hooks
• Experience Creating Custom Hooks
• Experience with Redux 

Nodejs and Expressjs Skills 

• Advanced Javascript/Typescript Skills 
• Experience with RESTful API development
• Testing with Selenium Test Driven Development(TDD) or Behaviour Driven Development
• Experience with SSL and Git
• Experience with API deployment
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with WebSockets and Socket.io
• Knowledgeable Use of Async: Await
• Working with external API integration ie Paystack
• Creating Sessions and Cookies
• Experience integrating middleware
• Experience with automated email integrations
• Experience with Authentication (CSRf tokens and Oauth2)
• Experience Model View Controllers
• Experience with Dynamic Routing
• Experience with Mongoose and MongoDB 

MongoDB 

• Experience Creating Databases and Collections 
• Experience with JSON Data CRUD operations
• Experience building Schemas and Relations
• Experience with the frameworks of Shell operations
• Experience Working with Indexes
• Experience with Role Based Access Control and SSL Transport Encryption 
• Experience with performance optimization, backups for fault tolerance, and Database Deployment
• Experience setting up database Transactions
• Experience and Theoretical Knowledge of MongoDB Stitch
• Desirable Requirements(Taught After Hiring) 

Micro frontends 

• Experience with Webpack 
• Experience with the Module Federation Plugin
• Experience with Shared Module Versioning
• Experience linking micro-frontend apps together
• Experience Implementing CI/CD piepelines
• Experience with deployment to AWS
• Authentication in Microfrontends 

Microservices 

• Experience with Docker 
• Experience Orchestrating Collections of Services with Kubernetes 
• Experience Designing Multiservice Application Architectures
• Experience Leveraging Cloud Environments for Development
• Experience with Microservice Response Normalization Strategies
• Experience with Microservice Database Management and Modelling 
• Experience with Microservice Authentication strategies 
• Experience Testing Isolated Microservices
• Experience with Microservice Integration of a Server Side Rendered React App
• Experience creating Shareable and Reusable code between Microservices
• Experience with CRUD Server Setup 
• Experience with NATS Streaming Server as a framework for Event Bus Implementation
• Experience with NATS integration to Nodejs 
• Experience with NATS in Client Side Integration
• Experience with Cross-Service Data Replication in Action 
• Experience with Event Listeners and Handlers in Concurrent Services
• Experience Handling External APIs like PAystack in a Microservice environment 
• Experience with Microfrontend to Microservice integration

Work Type: Remote with 4hr bi-weekly office meetings.