About Paystack
Paystack’s mission is to accelerate digital payments on the continent of Africa. Over 200,000 of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya, use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. They include the likes of MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FairMoney, PiggyVest, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.
In just over 10 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more.
We’re obsessed with building the best place to work on the continent while accelerating digital commerce across Africa, and we need your help!
About the role
As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that expose our data and functionality to internal and external users.
Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable.
You’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa’s best-known brands.
What we expect of you:
Architect and Developer: Design and implement robust solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on optimization and seamless integration to other systems.
Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary.
What you are good at:
You have extensive programming experience in at least one language, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, C#, Python, or another major language
Working on large, distributed systems at scale
Understanding and working with SQL databases
Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
Taking ownership of the work assigned to you
You have a passion for building products to help African businesses
Technology stack:
Our technology stack includes the following:
Typescript and JavaScript
Node.js
Frameworks: Express.js, Sails.js, and Nest.js
Frontend frameworks: React, Angular, and Vue
Redis
MySQL and MongoDB
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS