Career Opportunities at Youverify

Youverify is a leading provider of digital identity management and supports innovative Private security companies, Government agencies, FinTech companies, and top tier banks manage KYC, AML in a safe and regulatory compliant manner.

Youverify’s mission is to be the most reliable source of identity, address and background data verification. Since been peer-selected by cohort members of Village Capital PayPal Fintech 2018, Youverify has continued to shift the verification landscape with our product offerings. As a company that provides modern and compliant identity and address verification services for government, global enterprises and start-ups, Youverify knows first-hand how difficult it may be for businesses to verify the identity of their customers, staffs and partners and we want to help to make this process as simple and easy as possible. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing and product driven environment using new technologies and frameworks as we continue building our identity verification solution.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Developer Experience Engineer

Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Youverify is looking for a Developer Experience Engineer to join the Technology team to introduce processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment to maintenance and updates.

What a typical week may look like at Youverify

• Ensure end-to-end quality experience for our customers
• Work closely with the product team to document processes and user stories
• Help external developers integrate swiftly with our product
• Prepare and refine engineering documentation

Requirements

• Qualification: Bachelor's Degree
• 2+ years of professional experience in improving internal and external developer experience
• Professional work experience in team building and project organization
• Good communication and technical writing skills

Job Position: Software Engineer Backend
Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Youverify is looking for a Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Technology team to build the next-generation applications to solving complex problems and work with a world-class engineering and product team to deliver innovative products for our users.

Job Description

• Design and implement new features and enhancements using NodeJS
• Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process
• Design, innovate and solve complex problems inherent in operating a high scale classifieds platform
• Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process
• Interact with product owners, partners and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements
• Debugging and Improvement of existing systems
• Expand our micro-services architecture
• Management of all 3rd party tool relationships and integrations from a technical aspect. i.e. SMS providers, Email, APIs, Finance tools, Marketing tools, Business tools, AWS etc.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience working with NodeJS
• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries — Mocha, Jest etc
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Experience having worked with at least one Web Framework for your language of choice
• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
• Familiarity with at least one web server technology — (ex: Apache, Nginx)
• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool — Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI, Github Action
• Working knowledge of gRPC and protocol buffers
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker), Caching (Redis), API gateway (KrakenD), orchestration (Kubernetes), Distributed tracing (Jaeger), Service mesh (LinkerD) and observability
• Knowledge of microservices (or SOA), Docker, and/or distributed systems.
• Good working knowledge ofNoSQL systems (MongoDB, Elastic, Cassandra), Relational Database Systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle), Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ), Kafka
• Experience with managing and deploying applications on AWS / DigitalOcean / GCP.

Job Position: Software Engineer - Frontend
Job Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Youverify is looking for a JavaScript developer who is skilled with Vue.js. Your primary focus will be developing user-facing web applications and components.
• You will implement them with the Vue.js framework, following generally accepted practices and workflows. You will ensure that you produce robust, secure, modular, and maintainable code.
• You will coordinate with other team members, including back-end developers and UX/UI designers. Your commitment to team collaboration, perfect communication, and a quality product is crucial.

Job Description

• Design and implement new features and enhancements using Vue.js
• Fix bugs assigned during the sprint planning process
• Design, innovate and solve complex problems inherent in operating a high scale classifieds platform
• Play a key role in reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process
• Interact with product owners, partners and business stakeholders to understand and develop requirements
• Debugging and Improvement of existing systems
• Building modular and reusable components and libraries

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience working with Vue.js
• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Comfortable working within agile methodologies and experienced in task estimation and time management
• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries — Mocha, Jest etc
• Highly proficient with the JavaScript language and its modern ES6+ syntax and features
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Highly proficient with Vue.js framework and its core principles such as components, reactivity, and the virtual DOM
• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
• Good understanding of HTML5 and CSS3, including Sass
• Proficiency with modern development tools, like Babel, Webpack, and Git
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure (Docker
• Experience with both consuming and designing RESTful APIs
• Understanding of server-side rendering and its benefits and use cases
• Knowledge of functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Ability to write efficient, secure, well-documented, and clean JavaScript code
• Experience with Frameworks such as Tailwind CSS framework, Element UI etc.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV including link to their GitHub profile and portfolio to: hr@youverify.co with the subject as “Developer Experience Engineer”.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.