Staff Backend Engineer at Yoco

About the role

A Staff Engineer at Yoco is a hands-on, technical leader on an individual contributor career path (open, in the future, to change to a management path). You will be responsible for systems design and architecture, mentoring and best practices. Your days will be spent designing systems, writing code and guiding the team and individuals on technical aspects. A Staff Engineer at Yoco is also encouraged to engage in leadership aspects of the team. We look to you for technical best practices, ask for your opinion on product direction and implementation and your experience working in Agile teams.

What you will be doing

• You will be working in our Capital team to help us evolve and add to our existing systems written in Scala that enable our Yoco Merchants to gain access to capital to grow their business. You will be working in an engineering team with a Technical Leader and Engineering Manager to design and implement new features, refactor existing systems and guide engineers to grow and implement the best engineering practices.

About you

• You have extensive experience in backend development
• Ideally you have over 10 years professional experience as a software engineer, with proven ability to take a feature from concept to production
• You have experience designing, architecting and developing systems from scratch ensuring they are scalable, reliable and secure.
• You have experience refactoring existing systems and reducing technical debt increasing the ergonomics of a code base for other developers.
• You are experienced in leading teams technically, being accountable for the technical vision of a system or product and being a key figure within the technical leadership driving technical strategy
• You have experience guiding and mentoring other developers (not necessarily people management)
• You have the ability to drive software engineering best practices
• You have a proven passion for all things software (and some hardware)

The People We’re Looking For

We’re looking for people who want to grow. And as Yoco grows we hope they stay with us, long term

• Building things that make society more equal is a daunting task. And it’s not for everyone. We never stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves and teammates. We start over, we constantly evolve — and we do it fast. We know that it’s just the right kind of meaningful madness for our kind of visionary human.
• So, who are you? You’re someone who resonates with our mission, but also our values, when it comes to how we work.
• You’re a curious problem-solver with a passion for doing good. You’re bright and grounded, experimental and bold. You play open cards and get stuck in. You’re not afraid of change. You close the loop.
• At Yoco, we love to laugh, cherish each other’s quirks, and be authentic.