Backend Engineer Recruitment at Korapay

Korapay is a payment infrastructure servicing a wide band of businesses making local and international payments. We are a marketplace for digital financial services across Africa. Our vision, which is at the core of what we do every day, is to create a world void of digital financial barriers across Africa. We are committed to delivering reliable, secure, and easy-to-use digital financial solutions to every single customer with a guarantee that it is improving their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Backend Engineer
Job Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for exceptional Software Engineers to join our Engineering team to solve some of the most challenging and interesting problems in Finance.
• Our backend Infrastructure presents many unique challenges and opportunities for designing and architecting complex systems.
• Due to COVID and restrictions on gathering, our team works remotely. Occasionally you might be required to gather on-site if the need arises.

About This Role
Here are a couple of things you'll be doing:

• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Writing well-tested backend infrastructure code.
• Building and maintaining public and internal APIs.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to bring our product vision to life.

Requirements
We are looking for someone who has:

• At least 4 years of experience building production applications with Javascript (and Typescript), Express, Node.js, MySQL.
• Understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs.
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English.
• Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.
• Creative, solution-driven and a customer-focused mindset.
• Sound judgment, professionalism, and patience when communicating.
• High attention to detail
• You view software engineering as art.

Technologies we use:

• NodeJS
• TypeScript
• MySQL.

Benefits
Why Korapay:

• We pay very competitively in the Nigerian market for the matched experience and role depending on your qualifications and experience.
• Access to premium health care services with our medical insurance partner.
• Stock options.
• Sponsored and tailored training.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Flexible work option.
• Time-off (20 days in a full calendar year).
• You'll get to work with other experienced, high-performing engineers and teammates to build impactful products.
• Performance Bonus.

Note

• After submission of the form, we will send a technical test.
• After submission of your test, our team will review your submission and reach out to you.
• Please note that your application will not be considered complete without completion of the technical test
• We are excited and waiting to hear from you.