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Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

PaystackZA
12 days ago
Job description

Job title : Senior Backend Engineer

Job Location : South Africa, Deadline : March 26, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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About the Senior Backend Engineer role

  • As a senior back-end engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end applications that exposes our data and functionality to internal and external users. Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable.
  • You’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa’s best known brands.
  • What we expect of you :

  • Architect and Develop : Design and implement robust backend solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
  • Product Innovation : Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
  • Technical Problem Solving : Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
  • System Integration : Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on backend optimization and seamless integration other systems.
  • Code Review and Testing : Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
  • System support : Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary
  • Location : Applicants must reside and be able to work legally in South Africa
  • What you are good at :

  • You have extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language
  • Working on large, distributed systems at scale
  • Understanding and working with SQL databases
  • Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
  • You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
  • Taking ownership of work assigned to you
  • You have a passion for building products to help African businesses
  • Technology stack :

    Our backend technology stack includes the following :

  • Typescript and Javascript
  • Node.js
  • Frameworks : Express.js and Sails.js
  • Redis
  • MySQL and MongoDB
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
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