Staff Engineer
# Staff Engineer **Pesa** · Nigeria · `Remote` · `Full Time` 💼 **Уровень роли:** `Senior` 🕒 **Статус:** *Опубликовано: сегодня* · *Источник: Himalayas (JSON API)* --- ### Top Skills & Match 🎯 **Ключевой стек роли:** `[Backend-Engineer]` `[Staff-Engineer]` `[Golang-Developer]` `[Software-Engineer]` `[Staff-Engineering]` `[Staff-Engineer-Jobs]` `[Staff-Engineering-Jobs]` `[Senior-Staff-Engineer]` --- ### About the Role At Pesa , we are making cross-border payments simple, fast & reliable for individuals & businesses across emerging markets; providing tools that power economic freedom. We are on a mission to localize the global money transfer experience and are currently seeking an intelligent Backend Developer with a strong sense of ownership and drive for continuous improvement. If you are driven to create mission-critical, cloud-based services, possess a thorough understanding of handling high volumes of customer requests, and are committed to achieving excellence through simplicity, we would love to connect with you! We’re looking for a Backend Developer with deep experience in Golang and modern banking systems to help architect, build, and scale our next-generation neobank infrastructure. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our core banking, payments, and multi-currency systems that power the financial experiences of thousands of customers across the globe. As a Backend Developer, you’ll work cross-functionally with our Product, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to ensure our systems are reliable, secure, and capable of supporting rapid product innovation in regulated financial environments. How you'll be contributing - Lead architecture and development of scalable backend systems using Golang, with a focus on performance, fault-tolerance, and regulatory-grade reliability. - Design and implement microservices that power multi-currency accounts, card issuance, and cross-border payments. - Collaborate with product and compliance teams to embed KYC, AML, and transaction monitoring logic into core systems. - Drive API design standards for internal and third-party integrations (e.g., card processors, open banking APIs, FX providers, ledger systems). - Mentor and coach mid/senior engineers; establish and enforce engineering best practices, CI/CD workflows, and testing frameworks. - Partner with SRE and DevOps teams to implement observability, monitoring, and fault isolation strategies for financial-grade uptime. - Evaluate and integrate modern banking-as-a-service and ledger solutions while maintaining strong control over data integrity and performance. - Lead technical design reviews, influence the product roadmap, and guide strategic technical decisions across the engineering organization. Requirements - 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 3+ years building systems in Golang. - Experience working in a Neobank, fintech, or regulated financial services environment (ideally EMI or payments). - Proven experience architecting distributed systems, payment gateways, or transaction-ledger platforms. - Working knowledge of observability stack (logging, metrics, tracing). - Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices & RESTful API design, REST/gRPC APIs, event-driven systems (Kafka, Pub/Sub). - Experience working with relational databases, NoSQL & understanding catching patterns (PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar). - Deep understanding of financial data integrity, idempotency, concurrency control, and security standards (PCI DSS, ISO 27001). - Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes). - Strong familiarity with DevOps pipelines, GitOps, and automated testing in production-grade environments. - Excellent communication skills and ability to work closely with product, design, and compliance counterparts in a fast-moving, global team. Nice-to-Haves - Experience with Core Banking Systems or Ledger Platforms (e.g., Mambu, Thought Machine, Solaris, or in-house ledgers). - Familiarity with FX, remittance, or multi-currency wallets. - Contributions to open-source Golang projects or fintech SDKs. - Exposure to security and compliance tooling (Vault, HashiCorp, Terraform, etc.). Originally posted on Himalayas
- Backend-Engineer
- Staff-Engineer
- Golang-Developer
- Software-Engineer
- Staff-Engineering
- Staff-Engineer-Jobs
- Staff-Engineering-Jobs
- Senior-Staff-Engineer
Наблюдалась 2026-10-17, впервые 2026-10-17, источник — Himalayas (JSON API).