Senior Full Stack Engineer - South Africa at MoonPay

About The Opportunity 

• Our engineering discipline builds the technology that enables MoonPay to learn quickly and scale easily. We organize in small cross-functional squads of 4-6 engineers and an embedded Product Manager and Product Data Analyst. We currently have squads across Crypto / NFT / Payments / KYC / Core Product and others. We’re pragmatic and believe in having fluid structure, this means people can move between teams or specialize

What You Will Do…

• Architect and develop new and existing products and features
• Work with Product Managers to come up with the best solutions and implementation plans for new features or changes to existing ones
• Collaborate with other product teams to deliver and improve customer facing features
• Contribute to the estimations, planning and execution of projects, features, and integrations
• Integrate and work closely with external service providers to ensure smooth operation
• Maintain and improve our existing codebase
• Write fully tested, high quality and performant code

About You 

• Extensive backend engineering experience at leading startups or fast growing tech companies
• Confident in developing, releasing and maintaining server applications in a fast paced, iterative environment. 
• Experience with some of our tech stack, or confident you can cross train and up skill quickly. 
• Have a deep understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and best practices
• Hold Cloud native experience with Google Cloud or similar e.g AWS, Azure
• Bonus points if you make open-source contributions or have experience in web3

As a Senior you will be expected to...

• Mentor and coach Engineers
• Champion the writing of high quality code
• Contribute to our overall approach and standards within the Engineering discipline. Including design, documentation, monitoring and alerting
• Lead initiatives from an engineering perspective, partnering closely with product managers

What You Be Working With…

• Typescript as our programming language of choice 
• Node.js as our backend platform
• TypeORM, TypeDI, TypeGraphQL and routing-controllers as our backend libraries
• React and NextJS hosted on Vercel as our frontend
• Google Cloud Platform to host our services
• Postgres as our core database
• Redis for caching
• Bull to manage background tasks
• DataDog for logging and monitoring
• GitHub to manage our source code
• Jest to run our tests