Senior Backend Engineer at Paystack

About the Senior Backend Engineer role

• As a senior back-end engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end applications that exposes our data and functionality to internal and external users. Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable.
• You’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa’s best known brands.

What we expect of you:

• Architect and Develop: Design and implement robust backend solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
• Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
• Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
• System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on backend optimization and seamless integration other systems.
• Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
• System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary
• Location: Applicants must reside and be able to work legally in South Africa

What you are good at:

• You have extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language
• Working on large, distributed systems at scale
• Understanding and working with SQL databases
• Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
• You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
• Taking ownership of work assigned to you
• You have a passion for building products to help African businesses

Technology stack:
Our backend technology stack includes the following:

• Typescript and Javascript
• Node.js
• Frameworks: Express.js and Sails.js
• Redis
• MySQL and MongoDB
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS