Backend Engineer

Yetu Pay; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Yetu Pay in Kinshasa or remote is seeking a backend engineer to shape payment and transaction workflows, integrations, and internal operations. You will focus on service design, implementation, data quality, and reliability to keep financial systems dependable.

You will design APIs, build core services, ensure testable code, and contribute to overall data models and integrations. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and code quality in a fast-paced payments environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with PHP, Laravel, or a comparable backend framework.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, APIs, and application architecture.
• Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Design and build APIs, background jobs, and core business services.
• Create and maintain data models and integrations.
• Improve service reliability and observability.
• Contribute to code quality and testing practices.

Skills

Backend development

APIs

Code quality

Tools

PHP

Laravel

Relational databases

Job description

Role overview

Develop backend services for payment and transaction workflows, integrations, and internal operations. The role covers service design and implementation as well as the data, quality, and reliability work needed to keep financial systems dependable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build APIs, background jobs, and core business services.
• Create and maintain data models and integrations.
• Improve service reliability and observability.
• Contribute to code quality and testing practices.

Requirements

• Experience with PHP, Laravel, or a comparable backend framework.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, APIs, and application architecture.
• Ability to write clean, testable, maintainable code.

Nice to have

• Three or more years of backend development experience is useful, though strong fundamentals and a record of delivering reliable systems are also valued.

Benefits and work setup

The role is based in Kinshasa or available remotely. The work supports digital financial services for people, businesses, and institutions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.