Senior Backend Software Engineer (Integrations) (Remote) at Datafin Recruitment

ENVIRONMENT:

• JOIN a cutting-edge FinTech company helping to shape the future of digital payments across Africa as its next Senior Backend Software Engineer.
• You will design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations.
• Applicants must have 6+ years’ experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering, strong Python skills, AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless), MySQL and MongoDB.

DUTIES:

Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations –

• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.

Effective Troubleshooting and Debugging of Payment Integration issues –

• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

REQUIREMENTS:

• 6+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering.
• Strong experience with Python.
• AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless).
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Bonus – Experience with Payment Integrations.

ATTRIBUTES:

Problem-Solving & Ownership –

• Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integration.
• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.

Collaboration & Communication –

• Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English. 
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.