Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Zepz, a leading global remittance company, and contribute to building our innovative payments platform. As a key member of the engineering team, you will design, develop, and maintain microservices-based payment processing solutions. You will collaborate with product owners and designers, ensuring high-quality code and efficient delivery. This role requires strong experience in Kotlin/Java, microservices, and API development. We offer a competitive benefits package including unlimited annual leave, private medical cover, retirement plans, life assurance, and parental leave, along with a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Strong experience of building APIs and services
• Extensive experience in Kotlin and/or Java
• Experience working with Microservices
• Experience working with REST, gRPC and GraphQL APIs (consumer and provider)
• Experience with unit and integration tests
• Experience working with a Cloud Native platform hosted in AWS; comfortable working with a system that supports users from around the world, at scale
• Bias for action; identify and fix problems, get buy-in for solutions, and keep tickets moving

Responsibilities

• Write great code; ensure code is well-tested and maintainable
• Help shape what we build; collaborate with product owners, designers, and other engineers to design and refine work
• Design and influence technology evolution; design a new platform with long-term goals and improve with new technology capabilities
• Own delivery; own work beyond a pull request, focusing on bugs, scalability, uptime, and non-functional requirements
• Grow together; review others' work and seek feedback on your own to improve the codebase and sharpen skills
• Share your knowledge and points of view; become an active member of a Chapter, experiment with new tools, present findings, and shape future standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of AWS native services
• CI/CD and IaaC tooling experience: Jenkins, Terraform, ArgoCD
• Experience with Relational and NoSQL databases

Benefits

• Unlimited Annual Leave
• Private Medical Cover
• Retirement plans
• Life Assurance
• Parental Leave
• Remote-first work environment