Backend Developer (Maasai)

About Maasai

Maasai is Africa’s platform to buy and sell startups. We help acquisition ready businesses find a home.

We are seeking a Back-End Engineer for our Technology team. You will play a critical role in shaping the technological direction and key components of our company from the ground up. You will work closely with the founders to build, scale, and optimize our product/platform, while fostering a collaborative and creative work environment.

You’ll also work directly with our advisors and customers to hear their challenges first- hand and show how the solutions we’re building can help them. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark from the very beginning of a new product and help shape the future of startups in Africa.

If you have excellent programming skills, a passion for developing applications and a track record of excellence in building early stage applications, we want to meet you.

The perfect candidate will have experience with:

• RESTful Services/APIs

• Backend Programming Languages (Python, PHP, NodeJs)

• Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

• Data Structures and Algorithms

• Knowledge of APIs and API Design

• Network Protocols and Web Security

Plus...

− Excellent communication

− Teamplayer

− Creativity and teachability

− Problem-solving

− Adaptability

Job Objectives & Timelines

2 months...

- Build MVP based on defined product roadmap and test usage and adoption rate based on pre-set metrics.

After 6 months...

- Deliver expanded platform functionality, work directly with our customers to help them get onboarded and launched. You’ll lay out new roadmaps and decisions based on learnings and retrospectives and implement new features and use cases.

After 12 months...

- As we continue to deliver new functionality to the market, you’ll design, develop and launch the technology that powers it.

• Early stage experience translating the founders' vision into a functional technological solution
• Extensive experience designing and developing multiple large-scale Web application backend systems.
• Has experience working with a small/medium team preferably at a startup or large organization
• Experience developing RESTful APIs and services for internal and external consumption
• Demonstrates deep backend expertise plus working knowledge of front-end
• Highly proficient working with deployment tools like Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Prioritizes delivery speed and “done” over “perfect”
• Bonus points for experience with natural language processing technologies, data science, or AI/ML.

• Competitive Salary
• Healthcare coverage
• Smart, supportive coworkers who truly care about you
• Hybrid work environment
• Whatever computing horsepower you’d like - Macbook Pro, Dell XPS, Commodore 64, etc.