Backend Engineer 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 Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

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.

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.

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