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Samuel Okafor, Backend EngineerSamuel O.Backend Engineer

Lagos, Nigeria

Local time --:-- (WAT, UTC+1)

English: Native

9 years · Payments company, Logistics marketplace

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Samuel Okafor

Backend Engineer

Backend engineer who designs boring, reliable systems. Has scaled payment APIs to millions of requests a day and loves a good postmortem.

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$68/hour

Skills

  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Go
  • AWS
  • System design

Vetting score

98/ 100

Highlights

  • Designed a ledger service processing $40M/month
  • Reduced p95 API latency from 900ms to 120ms
  • On-call lead for a 24/7 payments platform

Passed all five vetting stages

  1. 01Application & portfolio review
  2. 02English & soft-skills interview
  3. 03Technical assessment
  4. 04Paid trial project
  5. 05Background & reference checks

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