Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Miva Open University

Miva Open University is an education company building a new kind of university targeted at the African region. Miva is a Pan- African Distance e-Learning University that is built on a couple of beliefs: Firstly, we believe that the traditional brick and mortar approach to tertiary education is no longer a viable option in serving learners on the African continent. This approach will not provide the capacity and efficacy for the people of the region.

We are building a university experience that can leverage excellent academic talent (wherever it is to be found) and digital technologies to create a new, fresh, more efficacious and more accessible tertiary experience. Our second belief is that this new tertiary experience must not only meet but exceed the existing way of doing things in terms of quality, efficacy and preparing learners for the future. We are uncompromising in these beliefs and this is why we are excited to speak to you.

Overall Functions

• As a Senior Full Stack Engineer you will be responsible for participating in the development and maintenance of all our Web applications as well as microservices based on nodejs.
• This will include the web client for our EdTech platform, company websites, back-office and general tooling.
• You will be working in cross-functional teams focused on continuous improvement, collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design and the creation of high-quality products.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote high standards to build well-tested and highly scalable systems.
• Collaborate with the product, design and backend teams to implement new features and build on existing ones.
• Build well-tested and highly scalable applications and microservices.
• Embrace and promote team best practices and ways of working.
• Always implement features with user experience and data tracking in mind.
• Take ownership of your own performance, by understanding goals for the team, sprints, and yourself.
• Work closely with Product, QA and DevOps teams to manage backlogs and hit ‘team defined’ deadlines.
• Collaborate with team members to resolve impediments and technical challenges, under the supervision of Principal Engineer and Technical Manager.
• Be vocal about ways to improve our own performance and processes.
• Design client-side (React/Next.js) and server-side (Nest.js, Node.js) architecture.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to develop responsive and user-friendly web applications using React/Next.js.
• Write effective APIs with high-quality, scalable and reusable code.

Job Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar.
• Minimum of 3 years experience as Senior Fullstack Engineer.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in node, typescript and React development.
• Good understanding and knowledge of Javascript frameworks such as React/Next.js.
• Solid understanding of Restful API design and implementation.
• Solid understanding of node microservices and close interaction with DevOps for its maintenance.
• Solid understanding of TDD or general testing principles.
• Capacity to work independently and asynchronously from the Product team without affecting delivery or quality of code.
• Ability for context switching.