Lead Software Developer, Corporate Development Portal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Nigeria, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the Corporate Development Portal, overseeing its architecture, delivery, quality, and production health.

• Transform the existing prototype into a fully functional production application on the Intelligence Hub.

• Drive the ongoing evolution of the Portal.

• Manage the architectural framework and technical roadmap.

• Present technical alternatives and trade-offs to the executive sponsor and departmental leaders.

• Create data models, define metrics, and establish reconciliation checks to ensure consistent financial figures.

• Develop frontend pages and components using React and Recharts for visualizations.

• Construct backend routes in Node and Express to serve warehouse and PostgreSQL data to the user interface.

• Oversee data pipelines that feed the Portal, ensuring that dashboard figures are in alignment with their sources.

• Design and implement the AI layer, incorporating knowledge-based agents and natural language querying for dashboards.

• Create and enforce authentication and role-based access protocols for various user groups.

• Set up practices for code review, testing, documentation, and release management.

• Ensure the availability and performance of the Portal in production, and develop runbooks.

• Mentor and evaluate engineers or contractors as the Portal expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in full stack development.

• Proven experience leading at least one data-intensive product from architecture to production.

• Practical experience in building analytics platforms and financial intelligence products.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction as a tech lead, staff engineer, or engineering lead.

• Experience in mentoring fellow engineers.

• Proficient in JavaScript across the stack, including React, Node.js, and Express.

• Strong SQL skills and extensive experience with PostgreSQL or a similar relational database.

• Background in developing data-heavy dashboards and analytics applications.

• Experience in modeling financial data, including defining metrics, handling periods, managing currencies, and reconciling with source systems.

• Production experience with authentication and role-based access control.

• Familiarity with safeguarding confidential data.

• Experience with BigQuery or another cloud data warehouse.

• Proficient with BI tools such as Omni, Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.

• Regular use of AI coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor.

• Solid understanding of Git and GitHub workflows, including leading code reviews.

• Proven track record of collaborating directly with executives and business stakeholders to translate broad requests into well-defined deliverables.

• Strong advantage: experience in integrating LLMs or developing AI agents in production.

• Strong advantage: prior experience in a finance, strategy, or corporate development team setting.

• Strong advantage: experience building multi-tenant or multi-entity systems.

• Strong advantage: knowledge of cloud and deployment tools such as AWS, Cloudflare, Nginx, or CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong advantage: proficiency in Python or Node for scripting and data manipulation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Commitment to employee development and continuous learning opportunities.

• Chance to acquire valuable experience and develop enduring expertise.

• Fully remote work arrangement.