Software Engineer Backend

To be the dominant digital-first wealth and asset management partner for the underserved African middle class and fast-growing African businesses. We empower over 3 million customers to build a savings and investment culture across different asset classes. Our customer base continues to expand and we are committed to ensuring that every interaction with our platform provides the best experience possible.

We need a backend engineer who can own features end-to-end from database schema to production. Youll work on our core financial platform: portfolios transactions third-party integrations and the systems that keep everything running reliably.

This role is highly collaborative. Youll work closely with product and design to figure out what were building then take ownership of how it gets built and shipped.

Your code handles real money so correctness matters. We also ship frequently so speed matters too. The best candidates know how to balance both.

Features

• Build backend features for savings products portfolios stock investments
• Own the whole thing: database design business logic APIs tests deployment monitoring
• Write code that someone else can read and maintain a year from now
• Work with frontend/mobile to define API contracts

Systems

• Build integrations with payment gateways (Paystack Monnify etc) fund managers and KYC providers
• Design systems that handle money correctly. Idempotency consistency audit trails. Non-negotiable.
• Debug production issues and be on call for systems you build

Performance

• Optimize database queries design schemas and make things fast
• PostgreSQL and Redis for the data layer
• Celery for background jobs

Code quality

• Review code and get your code reviewed
• Write tests that actually catch bugs
• Help onboard new engineers

Required

• 5 years building production backend systems
• Our primary language is Python (Django/FastAPI) but proficiency in Golang and JavaScript (and TypeScript) is also important
• PostgreSQL MYSQL: schema design query optimization transactions
• Event-driven architectures message queues (SQS RabbitMQ Kafka)
• REST APIs: clean contracts versioning error handling
• AWS basics (EC2 RDS S3 SQS Lambda)
• Background job processing (Celery or similar)
• Can debug through logs metrics and code
• Git CI/CD modern workflows
• Can explain technical concepts to non-technical people

Nice to have

• Fintech payments or financial services experience
• Docker Swarm Kubernetes ECS
• Monitoring tools (New Relic Sentry CloudWatch)
• Typescript and Golang Experience

• Take ownership without being asked
• Know when to optimize and when to ship
• Write code for humans
• Adapt when requirements change
• Give and receive feedback well
• Care about users not just code
• Make the people around them better