Backend Engineer (Payments)

About the role

NEP Apps is hiring a Backend Engineer (Payments) to work remotely from Ghana. The Orders team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. This role is fully remote within Ghana. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Duties

• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production

Also helpful

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems

Benefits

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave
• Stock options
• 13th month salary

About us

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2013, we now have 70 employees.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at NEP Apps.