• You have at least 5+ years of experience building highly reliable and scalable backend services in Go
• Experience with RDBMSs such as Postgres, MySQL etc
• Experience with message-brokers technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ etc, working within event-driven architectures
• You have excellent knowledge of the best practices in designing, developing and deploying those services in a cloud environment
• You have experience working asynchronously with global teams using tools like Slack/Teams/Jira as well as other modern communication systems
• You are passionate about our product and the mission that we are on
• You are are fluent in written and spoken English

Desirable

• Help us enhance the digital payment systems and infrastructure for the African continent by contributing to the development && design of our core components and tools of our Rafiki web service API
• We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is experienced in Go to help us take the NALA business product to the next level
• Following impressive growth, we are diversify our offering to continue to deliver on our mission of increasing economic opportunities for Africans globally
• Specifically we want to open up NALA’s payment rails to customers via API, enabling corporates to send, receive and convert funds through NALA directly from their own systems
• We are deeply passionate about the communities we serve and we hope you will share our drive to deliver world class software and to achieve our ambitious goals
• Whilst projects change from sprint to sprint, these are the types of projects that we expect you will be getting involved in in the first few months of your time at NALA:
• Build business facing features together with the frontend team
• Integrate with payment partners to offer fast and reliable payments across many countries
• Implement core business logic such as Know Your Business, Identification Verification, Anti Money Laundering and fraud monitoring to keep our customers safe
• Quickly launch new countries by writing modular and configurable code to adapt to market specific and evolving requirements
• Use data to drive decision making and identify customer insights
• Automate processes and partner failover to reduce support load and keep our customers happy
• Contribute to our customer-facing REST API core functionalities