Software Engineer - Backend
Location: Lagos
The role
- We need a backend engineer who can own features end-to-end, from database schema to production.
- You’ll work on our core financial platform: portfolios, transactions, third-party integrations, and the systems that keep everything running reliably.
- This role is highly collaborative. You’ll work closely with product and design to figure out what we’re 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.
What you’ll do
Features:
- Build backend features for savings products, portfolios, and 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 the 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.
What we’re looking for
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.
The people who succeed on this team:
- 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.
Salary
N1,200,000 - N1,600,000 monthly.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online