Job Details
Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Salary: NGN 300,000 - 400,000 / month
Company: ApnaWorker
WakaEat is a global African food technology marketplace connecting restaurants, home chefs, and delivery partners with food lovers worldwide. We are preparing for a simultaneous soft launch in Lagos and the DMV. We need a backend developer who can help us get there. This is a hands-on backend engineering role working directly alongside our Senior Developer as we push to production. You will own backend and integration work across a live microservices architecture. You will write production code, ship, communicate blockers, and deliver. Responsibilities: Backend and API development across our microservices architecture, payment integration with Stripe (USD) and Flutterwave (NGN), mobile app stability support for iOS and Android (React Native), bug fixes and pre-launch technical blockers, AWS infrastructure support alongside our DevOps engineer, weekly progress reporting to Technical Lead. Requirements: 3-6 years of professional software development experience, strong Node.js or Python backend skills, RESTful APIs and microservices architecture experience, familiarity with React Native or mobile development, AWS and Git proficiency, Lagos-based with immediate availability, fluent English. Strong bonuses: Stripe and/or Flutterwave integration experience, food delivery or marketplace platform background, startup or pre-launch environment experience. Compensation: Probation (3 months): 300,000 NGN per month, post-probation: 400,000 NGN per month. Remote, Lagos-based with onsite collaboration when requested.