Senior Software Engineer at Paystack

About the Position

• We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail, and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems and helping people.

Responsibilities
You Will:

• Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Paystack’s engineering teams.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Requirements
What we look for in you:

• 4+ years experience building software or web applications with object-oriented or functional programming languages. We build most of our systems with Javascript and we have a strong focus on writing clean, well designed and scalable code
• You have experience working with Unix based systems. Experience with AWS is an added advantage.
• Experience in building large, highly available distributed systems. Experience as a team lead is an added advantage.
• Ability and desire to work in our collaborative environment: open team room, pair programming and fluid interactions with all products and operations teams
• Interest in TDD and specific experiences using a test-heavy approach to solve problems and create solutions
• Focus on building solutions utilizing an agile approach: close relationships with Product Managers, communicating and digesting real-time feedback, and working smart to build story cards on a daily basis.