Financial Inclusion For All
Senior Back-End Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
36 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience as a Back-End Engineer (Senior-level / Tech Lead depth expected)
- Strong hands-on experience with Domain Driven Development.
- Strong experience with Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Solid hands-on experience with AWS (or equivalent cloud platforms - Google Cloud/Azure).
- Proven experience building serverless & Kubernetes architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, etc.)
- Experience designing and operating event-driven microservices.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, async workflows, and distributed systems.
- Experience with testing strategies (unit, integration, contract tests).
- Highly experienced in designing monitoring & observability systems.
- Nice to Have Exposure to fintech, payments, and high-regulation systems.
- Basic understanding of blockchain or crypto transaction flows.
- Experience improving system observability, logging, and monitoring.
Benefits
- Work on real infrastructure problems with real impact.
- Strong engineering culture focused on ownership and quality.
- Opportunity to influence architecture, standards, and long-term platform direction.
- Impactful and Purposeful Work: You will be helping to drive financial inclusion across Africa.
- Remote-First Flexibility: We embrace a fully remote work environment.
- Global & Diverse Team: You will have the opportunity to work with talented professionals from 25+ countries across the world, in a multicultural and collaborative environment.
- Learning & Development: Access to resources, support, and autonomy to grow professionally.
- Mental Health Support Services: Your mental well-being matters to us.
- Competitive compensation and meaningful health coverage, and all full-time employees are participants in our stock option plan.
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