Remote Backend Engineer: Payments & APIs (PHP/Laravel)

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

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.