Senior Backend Engineer at Flutterwave

The Role: Flutterwave is looking for an experienced Senior Frontend Engineer, Join our dynamic Product Innovations Team and contribute to building cutting-edge financial products that redefine the industry. As a senior backend engineer for a product innovations team, your role would involve developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure and systems that power new product features and enhancements.

You would work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and frontend engineers, to understand the requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient backend solutions.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend systems that support new financial product features and enhancements.
• API Design and Development: Design and implement well-structured and efficient APIs that facilitate seamless integration between frontend and backend systems.
• Database Management: Develop and optimize database schemas, queries, and data storage strategies to ensure high performance, scalability, and data integrity.
• Security and Compliance: Implement robust security measures and adhere to industry regulations to ensure the protection of sensitive financial data.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks through code optimization, caching strategies, and infrastructure scaling.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Write unit tests, integration tests, and participate in code reviews to ensure the reliability, maintainability, and quality of the backend codebase.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and ensure smooth integration of backend systems with frontend components.
• Research and Innovation: Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, conduct technical research, and propose innovative solutions to improve our financial products and services.
• Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Investigate and resolve complex technical issues, provide support during production incidents, and contribute to root cause analysis and preventive measures.

Required competency and skillset to be a waver:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. A relevant master's degree is a plus.
• 6+ years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, preferably in the fintech or financial services industry.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages preferrable Node Js, Python, Java, or Go.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
• Proficiency in working with databases, such as SQL or NoSQL, and implementing efficient data models and queries.
• Solid understanding of security best practices, data encryption, and authentication/authorization mechanisms.
• Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS or Azure, and deploying applications using containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to analyze complex systems, and a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment