Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Senior Backend Engineer - Android Application | Fintech | Remote | VC backed

(Remote)

Description

Who we are:

We believe entrepreneurship is essential to prosperity, so we make running a business easier, by building mobile-first enterprise software for micro-merchants in Africa.

We are developing an android application allowing merchants to run their entire business from their phone. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.

The future of commerce for micro merchants is centered around their phone. We’re one of the early players in this high growth space and we have just begun.

The start-up is backed by a number of high profile Venture capitalists 468 Capital, Presight Ventures, Jigsaw.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced self-starter who will lead the backend development of new features for our mobile product incorporating integrated testing and monitoring.

The Senior Backend Engineer will report directly to the CPO.

You will work with an incredibly passionate, multi talented group of seasoned entrepreneurs dedicated to solving complicated problems in Africa.

Your impact:

• Build mobile APIs, integrate into 3rd party service providers and develop microservices to evolve our architecture
• Ensure outstanding code quality and maintainability by evolving architecture and tech stack, code reviews, refactoring and improving build and test systems
• Work in an agile environment with a continuous delivery process

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field
• 6+ years overall professional experience in developing server-side applications using Java/Kotlin
• Familiarity and experience in using frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Extensive working knowledge of RESTful API services and integrations
• Worked with service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns, troubleshooting methods and best practices, including synchronous and event driven APIs
• Experience in cloud native (preferably AWS and/or GCP) development and operations, with a strong focus on containerised workloads (Docker, Kubernetes, CAAS, PAAS)
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and noSQL databases

Benefits

• Be part of a small, talent dense team changing commerce in Africa
• An opportunity to guide and lead the design and implementation a platform that will change the future of commerce for micro merchants in Africa
• Option to be paid in digital currency
• A competitive salary - our budget for this role is USD 101,000 per annum
• Work fully remote