Technical Lead Opportunity

5 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Paystack Full time

We're driving innovation in digital payments across the African continent at Paystack. Our modern payments gateway is used by over 200K businesses in Nigeria and a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya. This includes prominent brands like MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.

In just over 8 years, our team has introduced a consistent stream of innovation in the online payments landscape, including automated recurring payments, direct bank account payments, automated chargebacks, and more. We've been acquired by Stripe and are committed to helping build out Africa's payments infrastructure.

About the Expert Backend Systems Architect Role

This senior back-end engineer position involves designing and implementing robust back-end applications that expose data and functionality to internal and external users. Applications handling financial information must be able to handle large data sets efficiently, while being highly accurate and reliable.

You'll collaborate with talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa's most recognized brands.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Designing and implementing backend solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
  • Developing technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
  • Tackling complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
  • Collaborating on refining the platform's architecture, focusing on backend optimization and seamless integration other systems.
  • Reviewing specifications and code submissions and conducting thorough testing to maintain code quality.
  • Collaborating with other teams to assist merchants and customers where necessary.
Requirements:
  • Extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language.
  • Experience working on large, distributed systems at scale.
  • Understanding and working with SQL databases.
  • Writing solid unit testing and integration tests.
  • Communicating clearly and collaborating in a remote environment.
  • Taking ownership of work assigned.
  • A passion for building products to help African businesses.

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