We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join Halan team. Our mission is to build the next-gen payments and financial services platform, completely reimagining how we think of payments for today’s digital age. We have grown rapidly since inception in 2018 to become Africa’s fastest-growing startup and launched new verticals in digital payments and access to finance.
Key Responsibilties:
- Be a key player in building a strong team with high-quality output and create a culture of innovation
- Drive designs of major software components, systems, and features in your team and cross teams
- Design, develop and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth
- Contribute to defining the best practices, including code reviews and unit testing
- Provide constructive, actionable feedback when reviewing code and design
Key Requirements:
- Strong knowledge in writing Go; also, knowledgein Scala, Java or any statically typed programming language is a plus
- Eagerness to learn multiple programming languages and skills
- Good OOP & Design patterns foundations
- Have a track record of building solutions based on micro-service architecture as well as big data processing
- Have a good understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
- Capable of seeing the big picture while considering the tiniest of details