Backend Engineer at Gomoney

Description

• We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you're:
  • Interested in building products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
  • An experienced Backend Engineer that is passionate about building scalable and reliable web platforms.
• We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialize or move between teams. 
• As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.

About this Role
What will you be doing as a Backend Engineer ?

• You'll be working as part of a cross-disciplinary group that prioritizes user needs, challenges assumptions, and iterates quickly, using data and running experiments to develop secure, robust, and scalable solutions.

How will you make impact?

• You will be a part of our backend team responsible for managing the interchange of data between our servers and users. 
• As you know, Backend Engineering primarily focuses on the development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Define and deliver resilient software that meets and exceeds the expectations of your team, managers, and product stakeholders.
• Develop readable, testable, and maintainable code to spec.
• Commitment to continued technical and professional growth.
• Interfacing with stakeholders to understand their business, goals, and visions for products supported by the product organisation.
• Lending your knowledge and positive approach to overall team development.
• Frameworks, and technologies we use include but are not limited to:
  • NodeJs + TypeScript
  • Kubernetes + Helm
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Docker
  • MongoDB
  • Github + CircleCI
  • Loki + Grafana.

Qualifications & Characteristics
As the ideal candidate for this role you have:

• At least 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for web applications
• Are proficient in writing code in Javascript or TypeScript, go, and enjoy learning new languages.
• Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases like Postgres or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with key-value databases like Redis or memcached.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests.
• Good knowledge of Docker, container orchestration and microservices architecture
• Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications
• Exposure to Agile methodologies.
• Experience working remotely as an effective member of a team.
• Fun collaborating, problem-solving, and being part of a team environment.
• A vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written).
• The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and limited supervision.
• The ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.

You should apply if:

• You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
• You deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
• You’re interested in building distributed systems and tackling the fun challenges and complexity that comes with that.
• You understand the importance of prioritization in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
• You’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
• You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.