Branch International is hiring a
Backend Software Engineer in Kenya

Summary

The job is for an engineering role at Branch, a global technology company offering financial services. The role involves building backend functionality, integrating with third-party systems, scaling services, and creating tools for operations teams. The company requires strong experience in building backend software, computer science fundamentals, pragmatism, entrepreneurial spirit, excellent collaboration skills, and the ability to work in a distributed team. Benefits include a competitive salary, medical coverage, vacation policy, child bonding leave, pension, travel opportunities, flexible hours, and team meals.

Requirements

• You have strong experience (2+ years) of building backend software for web-based or mobile products
• You have a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data storage, and agile development methodologies
• You are pragmatic and combine a strong understanding of technology and product needs to arrive at the best solution for a given problem
• You are highly entrepreneurial and thrive in taking ownership of your own impact. You proactively identify problems and propose solutions
• You are an excellent collaborator and communicator. You listen to others and seek to understand, but aren’t afraid to speak your mind and debate in a respectful manner when you disagree
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company, working with teammates from all over the world

Responsibilities

• Build out backend functionality for existing and new product lines such as Credit, Wallet, Bill Pay, and others
• Integrate with various third-party systems, including payment systems, identity providers, and messaging platforms
• Scale our backend services and pipelines to ever-growing levels of traffic and complexity
• Help build flexible and easy-to-use tools used by our operations teams to handle customer inquiries and other business processes

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Fully-paid Premium Plan medical coverage
• Generous vacation policy
• Generous child bonding leave policy
• Pension Benefit
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance (when it’s safe to travel!)
• Flexible working hours
• Weekly team meals and social events (virtual for now!)