Senior Backend Engineer - Payments

Job Overview:

We are looking for a talented Backend Engineer to join our Payments team. Our mission is to build the next-generation payments and financial services platform, reimagining how digital transactions work in today’s world. Since our inception in 2018, we have rapidly grown to become Africa’s fastest-growing startup, expanding into digital payments and financial access.

Key Responsibilities:

•Play a key role in building a high-performing backend team and fostering a culture of innovation.

•Collaborate in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment that supports individual development.

•Contribute to best coding practices, including code reviews.

•Provide constructive and actionable feedback in code reviews to improve the overall team output.

Requirements:

•Minimum 2 years of experience in backend development.

•Strong experience in Go (Golang); Scala or other statically typed languages is a plus.

•Solid foundation in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

•Proven experience building microservices architectures.

•Strong understanding of data structures, and algorithms, with the ability to apply them in real-world, scalable solutions.