Fullstack Engineer

The Company

Stears is a VC-backed African data and intelligence startup building the Bloomberg of Africa. For global organizations investing in African markets, Stears is the data and analytics provider that enables quick, accurate decisions for financial and operational opportunities. Stears users get access to raw data from various sources, trend data for a wide range of data sets, and constantly updated analysis by researchers. Stears goes beyond just data to provide insights and context based on knowledge of local markets and delivers it all in an easy-to-use interface usable by anyone, not just researchers. 

We are looking for a full stack frontend engineer who loves to learn and be challenged, and enjoys working in a high performing team where she is supported, given responsibility, and held to high standards. We’ve seen first-hand the impact of diversity of background amongst engineers, gender diversity in particular. Hence we are strongly encouraging qualified women to apply for this role!

The Role

Why it’s important: Nigerians all over the world are trying to understand their country in relation to their world better and Stears enables them to do so. To meet our growth and expansion goals, we’ve built and deployed applications at scale with multiple approaches across various tools and cloud providers. You will contribute to meaningful frontend engineering work that influences how our website it seen globally by our business customers

What it covers: As a Fullstack Engineer at Stears, you are responsible for:

• Design and implementation of the overall web application platform

• Pixel-perfect implementation of our approved user interface

• Understand our data platform and how data drives it

• Meet all technical and consumer requirements which includes building responsive applications that meet customer requirements and keep them engaged.

• Contribution and scaling of our REST API

• Building beautiful user experiences

• Integrating our front-end UI with the constructed API

• Design and implementation of continuous integration and deployment

• Contributing & integrating a design system

• Moderate CMS exposure such as Webflow.

Who you will work with: This role is part of the Stears team. As the Fullstack Engineer, you will also be a member of the Delivery team (product, design & engineering) and report to the Engineering Manager. In addition to working with the core team of product manager, engineers, and designers, you will work with many internal stakeholders, including Design, Product, Intelligence, Sales, and Platform. 

We are looking for someone with:

• Background working with RESTful or GraphQL APIs

• Task automation such as Celery

• ReactJS

• NextJS

• Developing and extending Content Management Systems.

• TypeScript

• Python (optional)

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes & Helm

• Passion towards driving improvements in a data centric environment

• Experience deploying builds to popular cloud providers - GCP/AWS

• Experience with log aggregation and observability tooling - e.g. PLG / ELK stack Moderate experience with the linux/unix/mac operating system scripting

• Experience with Gitlab & Git-based deployment workflows

• Django (optional)

Perks

Meaningful perks matter to us. They make employees better and contribute to making Stears a great place to work. If you join us, you can be assured that you’ll enjoy a wide range of generous perks, rewards and office benefits including: 

• Flexible working we are currently hybrid (you chose what days you are in the office)

• Help lay the platform foundations of our African expansion. We are currently fleshing out our expansion strategy and would love you to be a part of this growth while doing impactful work

• Be part of our new product offerings

• The Stears Experience - These are the top reasons engineers report having the best experience of their careers at Stears:

  • Experience personal growth on your way to engineering mastery through tough challenges and rewarding experiences
  • Gain a high level of autonomy and responsibility by taking on a senior role in our high trust startup environment and relatively flat organizational hierarchy
  • Do something meaningful by being part of a team making African data more widely available

• Competitive salary across different engineering bands

• Unlimited access to Stears Intelligence Solutions

• Comprehensive Health Insurance coverage

• Paid time off - 25 days excluding public holidays and sick days (Prorated)

• Compassionate Leave

• Parental Leave

• Unlimited Sick Leave

• Special emphasis on learning and development

• Regular social activities, including annual off-site team bonding

• A well stocked fridge,  lots of snacks and bean bags

• Stears branded merchandise and swag

• Access to an expert Intelligence & Analytics team - Stears Intelligence team includes some of the brightest knowledge experts in Nigeria covering a wide range of sectors, all with a passion for delivering the highest quality of intelligence and analytics on the African continent.

Diversity

Stears is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.