Platform & Backend Orchestration Engineer

Company: Africa Web Services (AfWS)

Location: Nigeria / Lagos preferred

Job Type: Permanent Employee

Experience: 5+ years

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.

• 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

• 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

How to apply: [email protected]