We are a Startup Launch - 1 EU Project/Client and 2 Nigeria-based projects. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Infrastructure

Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are looking for a very good engineer to build our data infrastructure, to drive stability, scalability and efficiency for the data ecosystem and build critical systems that provide insights to drive growth and delight users.
• The right candidate can architect, implement, and be an end-to-end owner across a suite of tools that includes data pipelines, event streaming, and data warehouse/data lake.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do:

• Build scalable and reliable data infrastructure that processes petabytes of data
• Integrate with big data technologies and workflow management frameworks such as EMR, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino/Presto, and Airflow
• Automate the process of infra operation such as EMR provisioning and autoscaling
• Build tools and framework for data analysis
• Create monitoring and alerting processes for the data infrastructure
• Own service operation in production, including participating in on-call rotation
• Working in a small, collaborative team with data engineers, data scientists, designers and product managers build an amazing data experience
• Promote best practices and improve the quality of the internal data products

Requirements

At a Minimum, We’d Like You to Have

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Proficiency in a common programming or scripting language (Python, Bash, Java, etc.)
• Minimum of 3 years of industry experience building large-scale reliable data backends
• Experience with big data technology and workflow management frameworks like Apache Flink, Airflow, Apache Spark, Hive, Kafka, Kinesis, etc
• Good understanding of Linux and Kubernetes, with experience utilizing services from a major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and cross-functional skills

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Extensive knowledge and experience with large-scale, distributed systems
• Experience building analytics frameworks and tools with broad adoption
• Experience maintaining and optimizing data warehouses or data lakes, including ensuring data availability, reliability and quality.

Benefits

• Competitive salary rangeL N400,000 - N700,000 Monthly. (Dependent on experience). 
• Performance-based bonus structure.
• Accommodation support
• Free breakfast and lunch every day.

Application Closing Date

30th September, 2025.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV with a Cover letter in PDF form stating their salary expectations and what should be expected from them to: tech@softplicity.co.uk using the Job Title as the subject of the email.