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Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Nigeria, Kenya, GhanaRemoteFull-time$3,500–$5,500/mo

Our client is a fintech company scaling its transaction infrastructure and needs a senior backend engineer who has shipped production systems that handle real money. You'll own services end to end — design, build, deploy, and keep them running.

What you'll do

  • Design and build backend services in Go, backed by PostgreSQL

  • Own API design and documentation for services consumed by web and mobile clients

  • Improve reliability, observability, and performance of existing systems

  • Review code and mentor mid-level engineers on the team

  • Work with product and design to scope and sequence delivery

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, at least 2 of them in Go

  • Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills

  • Experience running services in production on AWS or similar

  • Comfortable with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code basics

  • Clear written communication — this is a fully remote, async-friendly team

Nice to have

  • Payments, banking, or ledger system experience

  • Exposure to event-driven architecture or message queues

  • Open-source contributions

Skills

GoPostgreSQLDockerREST APIsAWSmicroservices

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