Back - End Developer (Experienced Candidates)

Mitiget is a leading Enterprise Information Security company delivering comprehensive security, safety and compliance solutions. Our solutions are the most competitively priced to a myriad of industry verticals, empowering enterprises to achieve a business enabled defense-in-depth security posture, manage corporate risk, improve compliance, and attain proactive detection and prevention of security threats to their people, processes, computing infrastructure including data, and applications.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Back - End Developer (Experienced Candidates)

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The ideal candidate must have successfully developed and deployed at least one live, production-ready system.
• We are seeking an experienced Backend Developer with strong technical skills and practical experience building, deploying, and maintaining scalable backend systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes.
• Maintain technical documentation, write automated tests, and follow software development best practices.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product designers, and other team members to deliver functional solutions.
• Identify and resolve bugs, performance issues, and system vulnerabilities.
• Implement appropriate authentication, authorisation, and data protection measures.
• Develop and maintain backend services using Python and Django.
• Deploy applications to production environments and provide ongoing maintenance and technical support.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performance backend applications.
• Build and manage RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services where required.
• Design, manage, and optimise databases using MySQL and other relevant database technologies.

Requirements

• Practical experience with MySQL, including database design, queries, optimisation, and management.
• Demonstrable experience developing, deploying, and maintaining live systems in a production environment.
• Strong proficiency in Python and Django.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems.
• Knowledge of software development principles, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
• Good understanding of RESTful API design, integration, and documentation.
• Understanding of web application security, authentication, authorisation, and data validation.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in backend development.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and application deployment automation.
• Familiarity with Linux server administration, Nginx, and application server configuration.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, or other database and caching technologies.
• Experience working with Agile development methodologies.
• A portfolio of deployed applications or contributions to relevant software projects.
• Experience with additional backend frameworks or technologies.
• Understanding of application monitoring, logging, performance tuning, and system scalability.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and test-driven development.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV and links to relevant projects, GitHub repositories, or portfolio to: [email protected] using "Application for Backend Developer" as the subject of the email.

Application Deadline: 30th November, 2026.