Crown Interactive Latest Job Recruitment 2026 | Apply Now

Crown Interactive delivers innovative, cost-effective, service aggregation solutions to the Telecom, Media and Technology-based sectors. Starting in 2005, this London-based business has gained ground-breaking expertise integrating business systems with evolving information technology. Based on the local demands of emerging markets, a new operation has been launched with its head office in Lagos, Nigeria. We also have a base in Washington DC. Our uniquely qualified and highly skilled team includes a diverse make-up of international technology professionals.

The company is guided by our operating principles of professionalism, integrity, efficiency, innovation, and unsurpassed customer service. Crown Interactive is launching a world-class Service Aggregator platform in Nigeria using cutting-edge Business Support Systems (BSS) platform. The service offering includes comprehensive order-to-cash services for local and international service providers who are seeking to outsource their business support systems with a minimum of capital expenditure. Additionally, Crown Interactive has established a Nigerian-based products operation with exclusive distribution rights to provide highly innovative 3G data and voice Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) for individual consumers and small-to-medium businesses.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer – PHP

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience as a PHP Software Engineer.
• Experience developing enterprise applications.
• Experience within the power/energy sector is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of Java is an added advantage.

Required Skills & Technical Competencies:

• Strong proficiency in PHP 7+ and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Hands-on experience with Yii1, Yii2, and Laravel.
• Strong knowledge of MySQL and database design.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Experience with MVC frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or CodeIgniter.
• Solid understanding of SQL optimization and database performance.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (experience with Vue.js, React, or Angular is an advantage).
• Experience using Git-based version control systems (GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket).
• Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs (SOAP knowledge is an added advantage).
• Understanding of secure coding practices and application performance optimization.
• Experience building workflow management applications and enterprise software platforms.
• Familiarity with SaaS application deployment.
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud is an advantage.

Core Competencies:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead technical teams and mentor junior engineers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams.
• Experience working in Agile development environments is an advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application and CV to: careers@crowninteractive.com or recruitment@cicod.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Job Title: Database Administrator

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Job Objective

• We’re looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Database Administrator (DBA) to join our growing technology team.
• Are you passionate about ensuring the availability, performance, security, and reliability of critical databases? Do you enjoy solving complex database challenges, optimising system performance, and ensuring that business-critical data is secure, accurate, and always available? Do you thrive in a fast-paced technology environment where you work closely with Engineering, DevOps, Product, and Business teams?

If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

• As the Database Administrator, you will be responsible for the administration, performance, security, availability, backup, recovery, and continuous optimisation of databases supporting our 1Gov, SaaS, Enterprise, and Power Sector solutions.
• You will play a critical role in ensuring that our technology platforms have reliable, scalable, and secure database infrastructure capable of supporting high-volume transactions, enterprise applications, government digital services, and power-sector solutions.
• This is an exciting opportunity for a technically strong and proactive professional who is passionate about database performance, data security, system reliability, troubleshooting, automation, and continuous improvement.

Key Roles and Responsibilities
Database Administration & Operations:

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain database management systems.
• Administer production, staging, testing, and development databases.
• Create and manage databases, schemas, tables, indexes, views, stored procedures, functions, and database objects.
• Manage database users, roles, permissions, and access controls.
• Monitor database availability, capacity, health, and performance.
• Ensure databases remain available and reliable for business-critical applications.
• Perform routine database maintenance, housekeeping, and optimisation.
• Manage database configurations in line with approved architecture and operational standards.

Database Performance & Optimisation:

• Monitor and analyse database performance.
• Identify slow queries, locking issues, deadlocks, bottlenecks, and inefficient database operations.
• Perform query optimisation and indexing.
• Review database execution plans and recommend performance improvements.
• Establish database performance baselines and monitoring thresholds.
• Work with developers to improve SQL queries and database design.
• Support performance tuning for high-volume applications and transaction-intensive systems.

Backup, Recovery & Business Continuity:

• Develop and maintain database backup and recovery procedures.
• Schedule and monitor automated database backups.
• Regularly test backup restoration processes.
• Ensure compliance with approved Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
• Support disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Maintain database replication and high-availability configurations where required.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity exercises.
• Ensure critical databases can be restored within agreed service levels.

Database Security:

• Implement database security controls and access management.
• Manage privileged database accounts and permissions.
• Ensure users have appropriate least-privilege access.
• Monitor and investigate unauthorised database access.
• Support database encryption at rest and in transit.
• Implement appropriate database auditing and logging.
• Participate in vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and remediation activities.
• Ensure database practices align with Crown Interactive’s information security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Support compliance with applicable data protection and regulatory requirements, including Nigeria’s data protection requirements where applicable.

Database Architecture & Development Support:

• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Software Engineers on database architecture.
• Review database designs for scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Support the design of relational and, where applicable, NoSQL database solutions.
• Provide database expertise during application development and implementation.
• Review database scripts and migration processes.
• Support schema changes and database version control.
• Ensure database changes follow approved Change Management procedures.
• Participate in technical design reviews and architecture discussions.

Production Support:

• Provide Level 2/Level 3 database support for production applications.
• Respond to database incidents and service disruptions.
• Investigate database-related application failures.
• Participate in incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain database incident and problem-management records.
• Provide timely escalation of critical database issues.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance and release activities.
• Support after-hours or on-call activities where required for critical production systems.

Monitoring & Capacity Management:

• Implement and maintain database monitoring tools.
• Monitor CPU, memory, storage, connections, transactions, replication, query performance, and database health.

Conduct database capacity planning:

• Forecast storage and resource requirements based on business growth.
• Identify potential capacity constraints before they affect production.
• Maintain dashboards and reports for database availability and performance.
• Establish alerts for critical database conditions.

Data Integrity & Quality:

• Maintain database integrity, consistency, and reliability.
• Implement appropriate constraints, validation, and data-control mechanisms.
• Investigate data inconsistencies and integrity issues.
• Support data cleansing and migration activities.
• Ensure database changes do not compromise existing application data.
• Collaborate with application teams to resolve data-related issues.

Documentation & Governance:

• Maintain accurate database architecture and configuration documentation.
• Document backup, recovery, replication, security, and maintenance procedures.
• Maintain database inventory and ownership records.
• Document production database changes.
• Maintain standard operating procedures and runbooks.
• Contribute to technology policies, standards, and database governance frameworks.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 7–8 years’ relevant experience in database administration or database engineering.
• Relevant professional certifications in database administration, cloud computing, or information technology are an advantage.
• Relevant experience as a Database Administrator, Database Engineer, or similar role.
• Experience managing production databases in a technology, SaaS, enterprise, government, telecommunications, financial services, utilities, or similarly complex environment.
• Experience supporting high-availability and business-critical systems.
• Experience with database backup, recovery, performance tuning, and security.
• Experience working within Agile and DevOps environments is an advantage.
• Experience with large-scale transaction processing is an advantage.

Required Skills & Competencies:
Relational Databases:

• PostgreSQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL / MariaDB
• Oracle Database

Database Technologies:

• SQL
• Database replication
• High availability
• Database clustering
• Partitioning
• Indexing
• Query optimisation
• Stored procedures
• Database migrations
• Backup and recovery

Cloud & Infrastructure:

• AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud
• Linux and Windows Server environments
• Docker and containerised environments
• Kubernetes is an advantage
• Cloud-managed database services

DevOps & Monitoring:

• Git / version control
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure monitoring
• Database monitoring and alerting
• Logging and observability tools

Security:

• Database access control
• Encryption
• Auditing and logging
• Vulnerability remediation
• Privileged access management.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application and CV to: careers@crowninteractive.com or recruitment@cicod.com using the  Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Job Title: Java Software Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Job Objective

• Are you passionate about building robust, scalable backend systems? Do you enjoy solving complex problems and creating efficient, high-quality solutions?
• We are looking for a talented Java Developer to contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of our software applications. As a key member of the engineering team, you will be responsible for building and enhancing backend services that power our products and support business growth.
• You should have a solid foundation in Java development and be eager to contribute across the full software development lifecycle from requirements analysis and design to development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend applications using Java 8+, Spring Framework, and Spring Boot
• Design, implement, and consume RESTful APIs
• Implement business logic with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability
• Work with JPA/Hibernate to map domain models and optimize database interactions
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code
• Perform unit and integration testing using JUnit and Mockito
• Debug and resolve application defects and production issues
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical improvements
• Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and frontend teams to deliver features end-to-end

Required Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 7 years plus professional experience in Java backend development
• Strong experience with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, and Spring Data JPA
• Experience working with cross-functional product teams in an agile environment.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Proficiency with MySQL or similar relational databases
• Experience using Maven or Gradle
• Experience, preferably in energy, power, or utilities-focused software projects.
• Proven experience with software solutions for power distribution, metering, or energy billing systems.
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages: Java, C#, Python, or JavaScript (Node.js, React, or Angular).
• Familiarity with Linux-based deployment environments.

Skill Requirements:

• Experience working in agile or cross-functional teams Java application architecture
• REST API design principles
• Database query optimization
• Exception handling and logging
• Basic understanding of security concepts (JWT, authentication, authorization)
• Exposure to microservices architectures
• Experience with Docker
• Knowledge of application performance tuning
• Experience with Undertow or Tomcat configuration

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Sales referral bonus incentives
• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, wellness, and professional development programs.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application and CV to: careers@crowninteractive.com or recruitment@cicod.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.