Software Engineering Tech Lead (Remote) at Datafin Recruitment

ENVIRONMENT:

• A cutting-edge FinTech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa urgently seeks to fill the role of a Software Engineering Tech lead who will be responsible for key functions that directly impact the onboarding and configuration experience for its merchants.
• This includes onboarding, user management, merchant configuration, and the setup of sandbox configuration for testing and support.
• The successful candidate must have 6+ years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering with strong TypeScript, Node.js & React. You will also need AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless and be skilled with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

DUTIES:

• Onboarding: Setup new merchants for our products, connections and payment methods, ensuring a seamless start.
• Dashboard: The team oversees the dashboard's design and general management.
• Merchant Login: Ensure a secure and intuitive login experience for the Dashboard.
• Merchant Configuration: Customise and edit merchant business and account settings.
• User Management: Handle access controls and user roles for both merchants and users.
• Transaction Listing: Provide merchants with transaction records and details for easy tracking and analysis.
• User Logs: Keep track of user activity for security and auditing.
• Internal Dashboard: A tool for Peach users to complete daily tasks.

Role expectations -

• Successfully able to build new features and enhance existing MX features.
• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across a full product portfolio.
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to the Backend.
• Effective troubleshooting and debugging of issues.
• Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Languages: TypeScript, Node.js, React
• Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, Serverless)
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git
• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines

Technical expertise –

• 6+ Years of experience in Cloud-based Backend Engineering.
• Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript and React.
• AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless).
• Database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Payments Domain knowledge preferable.

Problem-Solving & Ownership -

• Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new features.
• Able to iteratively maintain and evolve existing features to meet best practices and modern standards.
• 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.