Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join LemFi, a neobank for the African diaspora, as a Backend Engineer. You will design, build, and improve our Wallet systems, focusing on atomicity and ensuring high stability and performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance LemFi's Wallet and payment systems. Engineer abstractions to simplify financial product development for internal teams and contribute to improving codebase reliability and efficiency. You'll also document processes, write unit tests, and work with relational databases. Qualified candidates in the EMEA region are welcome to apply.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years experience writing backend software
• Minimum of 3 years writing and deploying mission critical applications in Golang
• Experience building reliability into your application
• Experience building with Docker
• Experience working in a team and working with version control software like Github
• Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL experience is preferred)
• Experience with data migration
• Experience with building scalable distributed systems and developer APIs
• Experienced working in a fast-paced and high-growth engineering environment

Responsibilities

• Design, build and improve our Wallet systems putting atomicity into consideration
• Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability, performance and reliability of the product
• Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to continuously improve LemFi's Wallet and payment systems
• Engineer abstractions that make building financial products easier for internal teams
• Contribute to other part of our code base to improve reliability and efficiency
• Document process flows for features and integrations
• Write unit tests to ensure the system meets requirements

Preferred Qualifications

PostgreSQL experience