Senior Backend Engineer

Kora is a payment infrastructure for Africa. We offer plug-and-play payment solutions for businesses to launch a tailored payment experience for their customers. At the front and center of what we do every day, we are creating a future void of digital financial barriers across Africa. We are committed to delivering secure, reliable, and easy-to-use digital financial solutions to customers with a guarantee that it is improving their lives. To achieve this mission, we need people like you. We value positive energy and clear communication and are committed to building an inclusive environment for people from every background.

About the role

This is a high-impact, collaborative role responsible for driving outcomes across the product and engineering team. You would be working with relevant stakeholders across the different teams within the organization to help define and implement tools and solutions to meet the business objectives. The role covers all stages, from requirements gathering, systems design, implementation, testing, and operational support. As a Senior Backend Engineer at Kora, you will focus on building new scalable features, optimizing and maintaining existing features, participating heavily in code and technical reviews, working closely with other engineers in the team to profer guidance with implementation and technical direction, research and suggest new ways to improve our application and processes. You will be heavily involved in the design, optimization, and implementation of the next-phase for our applications, and backend infrastructure as we continue to scale meet the ever-growing demands of our merchants and the business. Requirements

What you’ll be doing

1. Designing, implementing, and maintaining secure large-scale payment solutions to support our merchants and the business
2. Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to improve and optimize the reliability and performance of current applications, implementations
3. Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
4. Participating actively in code and technical reviews
5. Document development phases and monitor, and debug systems

What you’ll need

1. 4+ years of experience building large-scale and data-intensive applications. This includes but is not limited to expertise in building large-scale and performant applications, working with large data, microservices, distributed systems, data and database optimization, etc.
2. Familiarity with our commonly used technology choices including Node.js, Typescript, MYSQL
3. Experience working on low latency, high throughput distributed systems & with micro-service architectures
4. Attention to detail
5. Excellent communication and prioritization skills.
6. Deliberate drive to constantly improve and get better
7. Experience engaging in collaborative multi-functional teams
8. Experience with test frameworks and writing quality tests
9. A strong desire to give our merchants a great experience using our payment infrastructure

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Sponsored and Tailored training
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Work Style
• Internet Allowance
• Annual Performance Bonus
• Pension Plan
• The opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team-building something great!