At Verto, we’re passionate about helping businesses in Africa reach the world. What first started life as a FX solution for trading Nigerian Naira has now become a market-leading platform, changing the way thousands of businesses transfer money in and out of Africa.
We believe that where you do business shouldn’t determine how successful you are, or your ability to scale. Millions of companies a day have to juggle long settlement periods, high transaction fees and issues accessing liquidity in order to trade with African businesses. We’re on a mission to change this by creating equal access to easy payment and liquidity solutions that are already a given in developed markets.
We’re not alone in realising the opportunity and need to solve for emerging markets. We’re backed by world-class investors including Y-Combinator, Quona and MEVP, power payments for some of the most disruptive start-ups in the world and have a list of accolades from leading publications including being voted ‘Fintech Start Up of the Year’ at Fintech Awards London 2022.
Each year we process billions of dollars of payments and provide companies with solutions which help them to save money, automate processes and grow, but we’re only just getting started.
We are looking for a strong Full-Stack Developer to join our team. This person will be involved in active development assignments. You are expected to have between 2 and 6 years of professional experience in any object-oriented languages and have executed considerable work in NodeJS along with any of the modern web application building libraries such as Angular along with at least a working knowledge of developing scalable distributed cloud applications on AWS or any other cloud.
We’re looking for someone who is not only a good Full-Stack developer but also aware of modern trends in distributed software application development. You’re smart enough to work at top companies, but you’re picky about finding the right role (this is more than just a job, right?). You’re experienced, but you also like to learn new things. And you want to work with smart people and have fun building something great.
In this role you will:Design RESTful APIs
Work with other team members to develop and test highly scalable web applications and services as part of a suite of products in the Data governance domain working with petabyte-scale data
Design and create services and system architecture for your projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members
Use AWS to set up geographically agnostic systems in the cloud.
Exercise your strong skills & working knowledge of MySQL and relational databases
Prototype and develop new ideas and participate in all parts of the lifecycle from research to release
Work within a small team owning deliverables for our web APIs and front end.
Use development tools such as AWS Codebuild, git, npm, Visual Studio Code, Serverless framework, Swagger Specs, Angular, Flutter, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, SQS, Kafka etc.
Design and develop dockerized applications that will be deployed flexibly either on the cloud or on-premises depending on business requirements
2+ years of professional development experience using any object-oriented language
Have developed and delivered at least one application using NodeJS
Experience with modern web application building libraries such as Angular, Polymer, React
Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives
Excellent understanding of HTTP and REST standards
Experience with relational as well as MySQL databases
Good experience writing unit and acceptance tests
Proven experience in developing highly scalable distributed cloud applications on a cloud system, preferably AWS
You’re a great communicator and are capable of not just doing the work, but teaching others and explaining the “why” behind complicated technical decisions.
You aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves: This role will evolve, and we’ll want you to evolve with it!
