Platform & Backend Orchestration Engineer
AfWS · Nigeria / Lagos preferred ·
- Employment
- Full time
- Category
- Backend
- Experience
- 5+ years
HIRING
📍 Location: Nigeria / Lagos preferred
Job Type: Permanent Employee
Job Field: ICT / Computer
Experience: 5+ years
About the Role
Own the persistent backend service layer connecting compiler, model, deployment, and power-control capabilities into secure, reliable, and scalable customer-facing workflows. The role focuses on APIs, orchestration, deployment, validation, and platform integrations.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and own backend services powering the One-Click customer workflow.
- Develop APIs, job orchestration, queues, artefact management, deployment, validation, and result handling.
- Integrate the platform with SteadGrid for authenticated node-control requests, real-time state, audit, and telemetry.
- Implement role-based access control, tenant isolation, audit logging, and traceability.
- Build reliability features including idempotency, retries, timeouts, and failure handling.
- Develop operational dashboards, support tools, documentation, testing, and observability.
- Support post-launch incident resolution and workflow improvements.
- Collaborate with the CTO/Software Lead, Principal Compiler Architect, and Hardware Platform Architect.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend/platform engineering experience.
- Strong production experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, or Java.
- Experience building APIs, asynchronous job orchestration, queues, and database-backed services.
- Experience with containerised services, CI/CD, and production observability.
- Strong Linux and infrastructure integration experience.
- Familiarity with Redfish, BMC, and/or device-management APIs.
- Experience designing secure, multi-tenant platforms.
- Strong understanding of reliability, security, and production operations.
- Excellent ownership and documentation skills.
- Ability to rapidly absorb and operationalise knowledge from technical teams.
- C/C++ or Rust experience is an advantage where strong backend/platform capability is demonstrated.
Role Details
- Target Start Date: 15 October 2026
- Probation: Six months recommended
- Reporting: CTO / Designated Software Lead
- Successful delivery of accepted objectives may be linked to launch bonus and/or confirmation considerations.
How to Apply
📧 Apply via: [email protected]
Subject: Platform & Backend Orchestration Engineer