Software Engineer, Backend/Full-stack

Where you fit in

As a Software Engineer, you take ownership of projects, learn, and work collaboratively with your colleagues. You constantly design, test, evolve and evaluate the nuts and bolts of our operation while offering a creative and analytical approach.

The high-quality code that stems from your fingertips is robust, readable and understandable. Your pragmatic test coverage allows you to confidently and responsibly practise continuous refactoring.

As a backend specialist, you’re passionate about building scalable, resilient and secure systems. You’re at home writing platforms and you display an intricate understanding of how each line of code fits into a business plan.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, build and evolve our backend systems to support customer-facing and internal features, while proactively incorporating best practices for security, testability, observability, and analytics.

• Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to deliver a compelling user experience.

• Contribute to tools, workflows, and culture to ship code from your laptop/workstation to production frequently and confidently.

• Practise Behaviour Driven Development to collaborate and Test Driven Development to ensure high code quality.

• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.

• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

You Must Have

• At least 2 years of professional software development experience.

• 1+ years building scalable systems on Node.js.

• 1+ years building highly performant applications involving mission-critical database transactions against a relational database system.

• Proven ability to write clean and SOLID code using Typescript or ES2019+, applying appropriate object-oriented and functional programming design patterns.

• Well-versed with writing DAMP automated tests that are readable and robust.

• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

Extra credits for

• Experience with these technologies:
◦ Postgresql.
◦ The AWS ecosystem.
◦ GraphQL services.
◦ Gherkin syntax and Cucumber for behaviour specifications
◦ JVM-based strongly-typed languages like Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, or Java.
◦ Tools to create and maintain CI/CD pipelines
◦ Serverless infrastructure.

• Experience architecting cloud-native systems and managing their production deployments.

• Experience with any of these architecture patterns:
◦ Domain Driven Design.
◦ Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, Onion Architecture.
◦ Event Sourcing and CQRS.
◦ Different Event Driven Architecture patterns

• Ability to contribute in other parts of the stack - frontend, devops, test-automation, etc

• Experience in financial services or fintech.

• Experience working in product startups.