Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join NALA, a rapidly growing Fintech company, and contribute to enhancing digital payment systems for Africa and Asia. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and designing core components and tools for the Rafiki web service API. Your responsibilities include building business-facing features, integrating with payment partners, implementing core business logic (KYB, ID verification, AML, fraud monitoring), launching new countries, using data to drive decisions, automating processes, and contributing to the customer-facing REST API. This role requires 5+ years of experience in building scalable backend services using Go, experience with RDBMSs, message brokers, and cloud environments, and excellent knowledge of best practices. The ideal candidate will also have experience in Fintech and Payments, working in a startup environment, and infosec. NALA offers a comprehensive benefits package including 35 days off, birthday leave, enhanced parental leave, global workspace access, a learning budget, hybrid working options (for London-based employees), and various social events.

Requirements

• 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
• Passionate about our product and the mission that we are on
• You are fluent in written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Help us enhance the digital payment systems and infrastructure for the African and Asian continent by contributing to the development & design of our core components and tools of our Rafiki web service API
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience working in Fintech and Payments
• You have experience working in a tech startup
• Experience in infosec
• Experience in creating robust, well-polished and documented server-to-server APIs for customers access (E.g. REST/GraphQL)

Benefits

• 35 Days Off : Enjoy an amazing 35 days of holidays to unwind and explore (This will be 27 days + 8 Bank Holidays if UK-based)
• Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month
• Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After your probationary period)
• Global Workspace : Get access to WeWork locations worldwide
• Learning Budget : Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development
• Hybrid Working : We work in our Canary Wharf Office four days a week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
• Sarabi : Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team
• Monthly Socials : Join fun social events every month for great times
• Free Coffee : Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips